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This volume brings together the world's leading experts on disgust to fully explore this understudied behavior. Disgust is unique among emotions. It is, at once, perhaps the most "basic" and visceral of feelings while also being profoundly shaped by learning and culture. Evident from the earliest months of life, disgust influences individual behavior and shapes societies across political, social, economic, legal, ecological, and health contexts.  As an emotion that evolved to prevent our eating contaminated foods, disgust is now known to motivate wider behaviors, social processes, and customs. On a global scale, disgust finds a place in population health initiatives, from hand hygiene to tobacco warning labels, and may underlie aversions to globalization and other progressive agendas, such as those regarding sustainable consumption and gay marriage.

This comprehensive work provides cutting-edge, timely, and succinct theoretical and empirical contributions illustrating the breadth, rigor, relevance, and increasing maturity of disgust research to modern life.  It is relevant to a wide range of psychological research and is particularly important to behavior viewed through an evolutionary lens,  As such, it will stimulate further research and clinical applications that allow for a broader conceptualization of human behavior.

The reader will find:

Succinct and accessible summaries of key perspectives

Highlights of new scientific developments

A rich blend of theoretical and empirical chapters 

The Handbook of Disgust Research: Modern Perspectives and Applications

1.       Introduction

i.                    Paul Rozin - Disgust research comes of age

ii.                    **Nathan Consedine (Auckland) - Disgust: inductions, methods, and measurement

iii.                     **Diana Fleischman (Portsmouth) - The evolution of disgust, parasites and the behavioral immune system

iv.                      Ilona Croy (or Richard Stevenson) - Disgust and olfaction/perception

v.                     Anne Schienle - The neuroscience and physiology of disgust

vi.                      Sherri Widen (Stanford) - Developmental changes in disgust

vii.                       Roger Giner-Sorolla (Kent) - Morality, disgust and the sociocultural fabric

viii.                       **Joshua Tybur (Amsterdam) - Individual differences in disgust

ix.                     **Graham Davey (Sussex) - Disgust and mental health

x.                    **Lenny Vartanian (New South Wales) - Disgust, prejudice and stigma

xi.                     **Lisa Reynolds (Auckland) - Disgust and chronic health conditions

xii.                     **Charmaine Borg & Peter de Jong (Groningen) - Disgust and interpersonal relationships/sex

xiii.                      Christina Hartmann (ETH Zurich) - Disgust, diet, food selection, and nutrition

xiv.                       Val Curtis (London School) - Disgust and public health (incorporating smoking, cancer screening, and vaccination, hygiene campaigns)

xv.                      **Philip Powell - Disgust and consumer behavior

xvi.                       **Natalie Shook (West Virginia University) - Ruling by disgust: politics and power

xvii.                        Martha Nussbaum - Disgust and the law

xviii.                        **Nathan Consedine & Philip Powell - Disgust research into the future