Varieties of disgust faces and the structure of disgust.

@article{Rozin1994VarietiesOD,
  title={Varieties of disgust faces and the structure of disgust.},
  author={Paul Rozin and L Lowery and Roger Ebert},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={1994},
  volume={66 5},
  pages={
          870-81
        }
}
In 3 facial expression identification studies, college students matched a variety of disgust faces to verbally described eliciting situations. The faces depicted specific muscle action movements in accordance with P. Ekman and W. V. Friesen's (1978) Facial Action Coding System. The nose wrinkle is associated with either irritating or offensive smells and, to some extent, bad tastes. Gape and tongue extrusion are associated primarily with what we call core or food-offense disgust and also oral… 
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