
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 16(1) of Emotion (see record 2015-57029-001). In the article, the name of author Joshua M. Tybur was misspelled as Joshua M. Tyber. All versions of this article have been corrected.] Response sensitivity to common disgust elicitors varies considerably among individuals. The sources of these individual differences are largely unknown. In the current study, we use a large sample of female identical and nonidentical twins (N = 1,041 individuals) and their siblings (N = 170) to estimate the proportion of variation due to genetic effects, the shared environment, and other (residual) sources across multiple domains of disgust sensitivity. We also investigate the genetic and environmental influences on the covariation between the different disgust domains. Twin modeling revealed that approximately half of the variation in pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust is due to genetic effects. An independent pathways twin model also revealed that sexual and pathogen disgust sensitivity were influenced by unique sources of genetic variation, while also being significantly affected by a general genetic factor underlying all 3 disgust domains. Moral disgust sensitivity, in contrast, did not exhibit domain-specific genetic variation. These findings are discussed in light of contemporary evolutionary approaches to disgust sensitivity.
Adult, Individual variation, Sexual Behavior, Emotions, Individuality, Twins, Sexual strategies, Evolutionary psychology, Environment, Morals, 310, Microbiology, Twins, Dizygotic, Humans, ta515, ta1184, Genetic Variation, Twins, Monozygotic, Behavioral genetics, ta1181, Female, Gene-Environment Interaction, 3200 Psychology, Pathogen threat
Adult, Individual variation, Sexual Behavior, Emotions, Individuality, Twins, Sexual strategies, Evolutionary psychology, Environment, Morals, 310, Microbiology, Twins, Dizygotic, Humans, ta515, ta1184, Genetic Variation, Twins, Monozygotic, Behavioral genetics, ta1181, Female, Gene-Environment Interaction, 3200 Psychology, Pathogen threat
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