Simpson, Jane and Carter, Sarah and Anthony, Susan H. and Overton, Paul G. (2006) Is disgust a homogeneous emotion? Motivation and emotion, 30 (1). pp. 31-41. ISSN 0146-7239
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Many theoretical accounts consider disgust to be a unitary emotion, although others have challenged this notion. We predict that if core disgust and socio-moral disgust are different constructs, then their co-associated elicited emotions are likely to be different, and time as well as gender are likely to differentially affect their intensity (via a greater reliance of socio-moral disgust on cognitive appraisal). To test these predictions, participants were shown photographs of core and socio-moral disgust elicitors and asked to provide a wide ranging rating of their emotional response to each at 3 time points. Each elicitor generated a significantly different emotional response. Furthermore, the disgust response to core elicitors weakened over time whereas socio-moral responses intensified. Males and females showed similar levels of disgust to socio-moral elicitors, but females showed higher levels to core elicitors. Overall, the results suggest that a different emotional construct was activated by each type of elicitor.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Motivation and emotion |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Core disgust - socio-moral disgust - emotional context - temporal changes - gender |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Departments: | Faculty of Health and Medicine > Health Research |
| ID Code: | 8318 |
| Deposited By: | Mr Richard Ingham |
| Deposited On: | 17 Apr 2008 16:59 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 18:22 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/8318 |
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