animal reminder disgust

• animal-reminder disgust

animal reminder disgust (uncountable)

1. (psychology) A feeling of disgust triggered by reminders that one is mortal and that certain aspects of one's nature are inherently animalistic.
   • 2008, Dean McKay, Reuben Robbins, “Chapter Two: Fears of Contamination”, in Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Dean McKay, Steven Taylor, editors, Clinical Handbook of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Problems, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 20:

     Animal reminder disgust refers to elicitors that remind individuals of their animal origins through sight stimuli such as blood, veins, tissue, and death. Violations of hygienic norms have been conceptualized as animal reminder disgust because they are related to animalistic behavior (Haidt, McCauley, & Rozin 1994; Rozin et al., 1993).

   • 2016, Megan Viar-Paxton, Bunmi O. Olatuji, 21: Measurement of Disgust Proneness, Herbert L. Meiselman (editor), Emotion Measurement, Elsevier (Woodhead Publishing), page 528,

     However, some researchers have questioned whether core disgust, animal-reminder disgust, and contamination disgust represent conceptually distinct categories (Tybur et al., 2009) and an alternative approach that is based in the supposed function of disgust domains has been proposed.

   • 2018, Roger Giner-Sorolla, Tom Kupfer, John Sabo, “5: What Makes Moral Disgust Special? An Integrative Functional Review”, in James M. Olson, editor, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 57, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 269:

     Animal-reminder disgust, or more broadly existential disgust, has been proposed as a reaction to things that bring to mind our similarity with nonhuman animals, especially their mortal nature.