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- Title
DISGUST: CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES, SOCIAL MANIFESTATIONS, AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS.
- Authors
Olatunji, Bunmi O.; Sawchuk, Craig N.
- Abstract
Emotions have been a long--standing cornerstone of research in social and clinical psychology. Although the systematic examination of emotional processes has yielded a rather comprehensive theoretical and scientific literature, dramatically less empirical attention has been devoted to disgust. In the present article, the nature, experience, and other associated features of disgust are outlined. We also review the domains of disgust and highlight how these domains have expanded over time. The function of disgust in various social constructions, such as cigarette smoking, vegetarianism, and homophobia, is highlighted. Disgust is also becoming increasingly recognized as an influential emotion in the onset, maintenance, and treatment of various phobic states, Obsessive--Compulsive Disorder, and eating disorders. In comparison to the other emotions, disgust offers great promise for future social and clinical research efforts, and prospective studies designed to improve our understanding of disgust are outlined.
- Subjects
AVERSION; EMOTIONS; SOCIAL psychology; CLINICAL psychology; SMOKING; VEGETARIANISM; HOMOPHOBIA
- Publication
Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, 2005, Vol 24, Issue 7, p932
- ISSN
0736-7236
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/jscp.2005.24.7.932