Human evaluation of amphibian species: a comparison of disgust and beauty
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/19:10397203
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00114-019-1635-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00114-019-1635-8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-019-1635-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00114-019-1635-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Human evaluation of amphibian species: a comparison of disgust and beauty
Original language description
Animals can evoke a wide range of emotions helping us to choose a quick and appropriate reaction towards them: approach or avoidance in general. This work has focused on disgust evoked by amphibians in humans as well as perceived beauty. Due to the high morphological variability of recent amphibian taxa, we examined humans’ cognitive categorisation of 101 amphibian photos and the effect of stimuli characteristics on disgust evaluation or beauty perception of individual groups/species. We also explored how respondents’ characteristics, e.g. gender, age and disgust sensitivity (DS-R) influence the disgust and beauty evaluation of picture stimuli on a 7-point Likert scale. The scores of disgust and beauty evaluation were strongly negatively correlated, representing the opposite ends of a single axis, further referred to as the index of preference. The most preferred amphibians belonged to anurans, whereas the least preferred ones were mostly worm-like, legless and small-eyed caecilians. Additional analyses of morphologically diverse anurans showed that species with a round body shape, short forelegs, small eyes, warts, pink and grey colouration, or dark and dull colouration were perceived as disgusting or ugly. The effect of gender and age were only marginal; however, people with higher disgust sensitivity rated amphibians as more disgusting and less beautiful, which might support the hypothesis of a possible disgust involvement in animal fears and phobias. This topic has implications not only for the nature conservation decisions of globally endangered amphibians but also for understanding the evolution of disgust and its generalisation to harmless animals.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50103 - Cognitive sciences
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Science of Nature
ISSN
0028-1042
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
106
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7-8
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
"Article Number: 41"
UT code for WoS article
000474493900002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85068571096