Tornochuk and Ellis argue that DISGUST should be considered a basic emotional system, on a par with the other basic emotional systems such as SEEKING, FEAR, RAGE, LUST, CARE, PANIC and PLAY, which constitute the groundwork for a cross-species emotion neuroscience with immediate implications for understanding emotional imbalances that characterise psychiatric disorders. Disgust is clearly a basic sensory/interoceptive affect (Rozin & Fallon, 198736.
Rozin , P. and Fallon , A. 1987 . A perspective on disgust . Psychological Review , 94 : 23 – 41 . [CrossRef], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®]View all references), and a socially constructed moral emotion (Haidt, 2003a14.
Haidt , J. 2003a . “ The moral emotions ” . In Handbook of affective sciences , Edited by: Davidson , R. J. , Scherer , K. R. and Goldsmith , H. H. 852 – 870 . New York : Oxford University Press . View all references, b15.
Haidt , J. 2003b . The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment . Psychological Review , 108 : 814 – 834 . [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®], [CSA]View all references), but perhaps it is a category error to classify disgust as a basic emotion. It is more akin to a sensory affect. If we consider sensory disgust to be a basic emotional systems, then why not include hunger, thirst, fatigue and many other affective states of the body as emotions?