Domain-specific variation in disgust sensitivity across the menstrual cycle
Domain-specific variation in disgust sensitivity across the menstrual cycle
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DOI：
10.1016/s1090-5138(03)00054-0
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发表时间：
2003-11-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Navarrete, CD
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作者：
Fessler, DMT;Navarrete, CD
厌恶在许多行为领域都有作用。基于这种情绪的某些方面表明适应性设计的假设，我们对307名女性进行了一项横断面研究，调查了月经周期中厌恶敏感度的变化。测试了两个假设，即(I)性厌恶是一种适应，用于减少生物上不理想的性行为的参与，以及(Ii)厌恶敏感性的许多方面通过针对病原体的行为预防的模式改变来补偿免疫强健的周期性变化。假设(I)得到支持，因为性领域的厌恶敏感性，并且仅在性领域，与根据自我报告的月经周期位置评估的推定受孕风险呈正相关。假设(Ii)不被支持，因为厌恶敏感度没有随着根据自我报告的月经周期位置而评估的假定免疫抑制水平的函数而改变。根据已发表的人种学证据对结果进行了讨论，这些证据表明，在不同的文化中，反常的性行为会引起厌恶，而性与进食是等同的。结合已发表的关于性条件作用动物模型的发现，这一语料库表明，性厌恶可能是一种全哺乳动物的适应。(C)2003 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
Disgust operates in many domains of behavior. On the presumption that facets of this emotion evince adaptive design, we conducted a cross-sectional study of 307 women, investigating changes in disgust sensitivity across the menstrual cycle. Two hypotheses were tested, namely (i) sexual disgust is an adaptation that serves to reduce participation in biologically suboptimal sexual behaviors, and (ii) many facets of disgust sensitivity compensate for cyclic changes in immunological robusticity via patterned alterations in behavioral prophylaxis against pathogens. Hypothesis (i) was supported, as disgust sensitivity in the sexual domain, and only in the sexual domain, was positively correlated with presumed conception risk as assessed on the basis of self-reported position in the menstrual cycle. Hypothesis (ii) was not supported, as no facet of disgust sensitivity changed as a function of the presumed level of immunosuppression assessed on the basis of self-reported position in the menstrual cycle. Results are discussed in light of published ethnographic evidence indicating that, in disparate cultures, disgust is elicited by aberrant sexual behaviors, and sex is equated with eating. Together with published findings on an animal model of sexual conditioning, this corpus suggests that sexual disgust may be a panmammalian adaptation. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.