Cognitive mechanism of disgust

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26540067
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Yamada Yuki 九州大学, 基幹教育院, 准教授 (60637700)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 感情 / 認知 / 意識 / 身体性 / 個人差 / 文化差 / 知覚 / 注意

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we investigated the question of what cognitive mechanism forms the feeling of disgust. As a result, 22 refereed papers and 62 conference presentations were made within this research period. Here we made Japanese version of disgust scales, tests of individual differences of disgust, eeriness, and discomfort, relationship between emotion and bodily space, cultural difference of embodied emotion, and various mechanisms related to embodiment, attention, and consciousness. The results of this research provided very important suggestions for understanding how disgust is felt consciously and how our behavior is regulated by the disgust emotion. This could make a bridge to future research.

Free Research Field

認知心理学