Pandemic elevates sensitivity to moral disgust but not pathogen disgust

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35375-2" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35375-2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35375-2" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-023-35375-2</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Pandemic elevates sensitivity to moral disgust but not pathogen disgust

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The behavioral immune system, with disgust as its motivational part, serves as the first line of defense in organisms’ protection against pathogens. Laboratory studies indicate that disgust sensitivity adaptively adjusts to simulated environmental threat, but whether disgust levels similarly change in response to real-life threats, such as a pandemic, remains largely unknown. In a preregistered within-subject study, we tested whether the threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic would lead to increased perceived disgust. The perception of threat was induced by testing during two phases of the Covid-19 pandemic (periods of high vs. low pathogen threat). We found heightened levels of moral disgust during a “wave” of the pandemic, but the effect was not observed in the domain of pathogen or sexual disgust. Moreover, the age of respondents and levels of trait anxiety were positively associated with pathogen and moral disgust, suggesting that variation in disgust sensitivity may be based chiefly on stable characteristics.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Pandemic elevates sensitivity to moral disgust but not pathogen disgust

Popis výsledku anglicky

The behavioral immune system, with disgust as its motivational part, serves as the first line of defense in organisms’ protection against pathogens. Laboratory studies indicate that disgust sensitivity adaptively adjusts to simulated environmental threat, but whether disgust levels similarly change in response to real-life threats, such as a pandemic, remains largely unknown. In a preregistered within-subject study, we tested whether the threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic would lead to increased perceived disgust. The perception of threat was induced by testing during two phases of the Covid-19 pandemic (periods of high vs. low pathogen threat). We found heightened levels of moral disgust during a “wave” of the pandemic, but the effect was not observed in the domain of pathogen or sexual disgust. Moreover, the age of respondents and levels of trait anxiety were positively associated with pathogen and moral disgust, suggesting that variation in disgust sensitivity may be based chiefly on stable characteristics.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50103 - Cognitive sciences

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA20-16698S" target="_blank" >GA20-16698S: „Disgust“ v těhotenství: individuální rozdíly a longitudinální změny</a><br>

Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Scientific Reports

ISSN

2045-2322

e-ISSN

2045-2322

Svazek periodika

13

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

"Article number 8206"

Kód UT WoS článku

001065312000067

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85159847974