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bosco
@selentelechia
poll do you have tactile feelings of disgust after interacting with "dirty" things or places even when there is no possibility of contaminant on your body? example: hands "feeling dirty" after you leave a pet store even if you didn't touch the animals
  • yes
    34.8%
  • sometimes
    34.8%
  • no
    28.5%
  • results
    1.9%
425 votesFinal results
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bosco
@selentelechia
second question do you ever get a tactile "need to wash" feeling after doing something that couldn't possibly put you in contact with germs but that you've developed a disgust response to? ex: clicking an ad or liking a
@jack
tweet?
  • yes
    24.3%
  • sometimes
    10.6%
  • no
    61.1%
  • you have OCD/results
    4%
226 votesFinal results
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bosco
@selentelechia
third question have you ever been aware of a learned ritualized procedure *causing* you to feel visceral disgust/tactile revulsion when you see the procedure violated? ex: seeing someone violate a sanitization/safety procedure that the general public would never need to use
  • yes
    26.7%
  • a few times
    17%
  • no
    48.9%
  • results/pedantic reply
    7.4%
176 votesFinal results
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bosco
@selentelechia
fourth question do you experience disgust *primarily* as a tactile sensation, or as a mental/emotional thing with very little/zero bodily content
  • tactile
    20.1%
  • mental/emotional
    35.8%
  • both
    35.8%
  • this q smacks of dualism
    8.2%
159 votesFinal results
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bosco
@selentelechia
are the sensations, thoughts, and feelings that you'd describe as "disgust" or "revulsion" *completely* experientially distinct from those you'd describe as "fear" or "anxiety?"
  • yes, zero overlap
    40.7%
  • no, some overlap
    50.7%
  • no, lots of overlap
    6.7%
  • they're entirely the same
    2%
150 votesFinal results
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