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animal reminder disgust

animal reminder disgust noun: a feeling of disgust triggered by reminders that one is mortal and that certain aspects of one's nature are inherently animalistic.

Noun

animal reminder disgust (uncountable)

  1. A feeling of disgust triggered by reminders that one is mortal and that certain aspects of one's nature are inherently animalistic.
    • 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...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...
    • 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.2016, Megan Viar-Paxton, Bunmi O. Olatuji, 21: Measurement of Disgust Proneness, Herbert L. Meiselman (editor), Emotion Measurement, Elsevier (Woodhead Publishing), page 528

Forms of animal reminder disgust

alternative formanimal-reminder disgust

Questions about animal reminder disgust

What does animal reminder disgust mean?
Animal reminder disgust means a feeling of disgust triggered by reminders that one is mortal and that certain aspects of one's nature are inherently animalistic.
What part of speech is animal reminder disgust?
Animal reminder disgust is a noun.

Words near animal reminder disgust in the dictionary

  1. animal products
  2. animal protein factor
  3. animal protein factors
  4. animal registries
  5. animal registry
  6. animal reminder disgust
  7. animal rights
  8. animal sanctuaries
  9. animal sanctuary
  10. animal science
  11. animal sciences

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