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Does anyone know where I can access a disgust sensitivity scale?

Hello, I would need a task to induce fear and disgust in a comparable way. Both tasks should elicit emotions for a few minutes (I need to measure psychophysiological parameters). It is very important that no fear be present in the disgust condition (e.g. blood or insects may elicit a mixed reaction).

Any suggestion?

Is there a scale that can be used to measure an individual's disgust towards smoking and/or towards those who smoke?

Who agrees that the sense of disgust is the root of esthetics? Why? How?

I am looking for a disgust scale specifically targeting smoking-related cues. However, there does not appear to be one. Instead, my research partner and I have been modifying the Disgust Scale-Revised (Haidt, McCauley, & Rozin, 1994; Modified by Olatunji et al.) to include smoking-related cues. Are there other options, or scales that I somehow missed?

Thank you for your time.

What are research gaps on disgust sensitivity?

In order to make estimates of standard error of difference.

Hi experts,

In my fMRI experiment, two conditions were compared: a high disgust condition and a low disgust condition. The high disgust condition involved presenting participants with disgusting images, while the low disgust condition presented the same images but with the disgusting elements digitally removed. During fMRI scanning, participants passively viewed stimuli from both conditions. After scanning, participants rated the level of disgust for each set of stimuli on a scale of 0 to 10.

Three results were observed:

On one hand, from the perspective of activation, this brain region appears to respond more strongly to the low disgust condition. On the other hand, from a correlation standpoint, it exhibits the opposite effect.

How can these results be interpreted?

Thank you!

The employees' disarray and disgust

I have analysed a number of online articles and have their emotion analysis scores along with their sentiment (pos/neg/neutral) and the sentiment value. The fields are: Anger, Disgust, Fear, Sadness and Joy. What I would like to know if it is possible to somehow combine the values of the fields to represent them as one value. I also have comments related to those articles and have their sentiment and emotion scores as well in similar fields.

This would permit me to find a threshold so that I can use it to grade the article and the comments according to that single value. For example, an article might be: Anger=0.100637, Disgust=0.327951, Fear=0.243857, Joy=0.043951 and Sadness=0.364933.

Clearly in this example, the sadness value is the highest followed by disgust, but would it be right to ignore the lower score fields and classify that article as "sadness" related when "disgust" is that close? Would the "sadness" value be representative of that article? And what if another has 0.148988, 0.14043, 0.070271, 0.609123 and 0.103031? Equal parts "anger" and "disgust" but with 60% "Joy"? 

My first thought was to have some sort of mean but that would not be accurate at all as the difference in the different scores will certainly be lost.

Can someone please help me a little with this problem? Can all five values somehow be represented as one? Thank you.