Highlights•Humans have adaptations for detecting and avoiding pathogens.•These
adaptations do not invariantely motivate avoidance when pathogens are detected.•Benefits …

People vary in the degree to which they experience disgust toward—and, consequently,
avoid—cues to pathogens. Prodigious work has measured this variation and observed that it …

We present, test, and extend a theoretical framework that connects disgust, a powerful basic
human emotion, to political attitudes through psychological mechanisms designed to protect …

Women have consistently higher levels of disgust than men. This sex difference is
substantial in magnitude, highly replicable, emerges with diverse assessment methods, and …

Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences are increasingly using evolutionary
insights to test novel hypotheses about human psychology. Because evolutionary …

Due to the environmental benefits of entomophagy, a growing field of research is now
investigating the factors that predict people's willingness to eat insects. In the current studies …

People vary in their willingness to try new foods. This variation, which is most frequently
measured using the Food Neophobia Scale (FNS; Pliner & Hobden, 1992), has been …

The emotion disgust motivates costly behavioral strategies that mitigate against potentially
larger costs associated with pathogens, sexual behavior, and moral transgressions …

An evolutionary task analysis predicts a connection between disgust and human mating, two
important but currently disconnected areas of psychology. Because short-term mating …

New food technologies have a high potential to transform the current resource‐consuming
food system to a more efficient and sustainable one, but public acceptance of new food …