The ultimate list of the most frightening and disgusting animals: negative emotions elicited by animals in Central European respondents

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/21:10431533

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/3/747" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/3/747</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11030747" target="_blank" >10.3390/ani11030747</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The ultimate list of the most frightening and disgusting animals: negative emotions elicited by animals in Central European respondents

Original language description

Animals have always played an important role in our everyday life. They are given more attention than inanimate objects, which have been adaptive during the evolution of mankind, with some animal species still presenting a real threat to us. In this study, we focused on the species usually evaluated as the scariest and most disgusting in the animal kingdom. We analyzed which characteristics (e.g., weight, potential threat for humans) influence their evaluation in a nonclinical Central European WEIRD population (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic). The tested animals were divided into two separated sets containing 34 standardized photos evoking predominantly one negative emotion, fear or disgust. The pictures were ranked according to their emotional intensity by 160 adult respondents with high inter-rater agreement. The most fear-eliciting species are mostly large vertebrates (e.g., carnivorans, ungulates, sharks, crocodiles), whereas smaller fear-evoking vertebrates are represented by snakes and invertebrates are represented by arachnids. The most disgust-evoking animals are human endo- and ectoparasites or animals visually resembling them. Humans emotionally react to fear-evoking animals that represent a real threat; however, identifying truly dangerous disgust-evoking animals might be harder. The results also support a somewhat special position of snakes and spiders.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-07164S" target="_blank" >GA19-07164S: Aversive response to spiders and the underlying emotions</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Animals

ISSN

2076-2615

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

747

UT code for WoS article

000633178600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85102136544