caa a22 4500 605448558 CHVBK 20210128100137.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10539-015-9478-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10539-015-9478-y Kasperbauer T. Copenhagen, Denmark aut Animals as disgust elicitors [Elektronische Daten] [T. Kasperbauer] This paper attempts to explain how and why nonhuman animals elicit disgust in human beings. I argue that animals elicit disgust in two ways. One is by triggering disease-protection mechanisms, and the other is by eliciting mortality salience, or thoughts of death. I discuss how these two types of disgust operate and defend their conceptual and theoretical coherence against common objections. I also outline an explanatory challenge for disgust researchers. Both types of disgust indicate that a wide variety of animals produce aversive and avoidant reactions in human beings. This seems somewhat odd, given the prominence of animals in human lives. The challenge, then, is explaining how humans cope with the presence of animals. I propose, as a hypothesis for further exploration, that we cope with animals, and our disgust responses to them, by attributing mental states that mark them as inferior beings. To develop my proposal, I draw from recent research on dehumanization and infrahumanization. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Disgust nationallicence Mortality salience nationallicence Animal reminder nationallicence Terror management theory nationallicence Dehumanization nationallicence Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/2(2015-03-01), 167-185 0169-3867 30:2<167 2015 30 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9478-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9478-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kasperbauer T. Copenhagen, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/2(2015-03-01), 167-185 0169-3867 30:2<167 2015 30 10539