Body

disgust response to bodily fluids may develop to protect against contamination, and disproportionally intense responses may be modulated by contextual meaning placed on the sounds

Vitoratou describes an interesting idea surrounding the formation of negative responses to bodily sounds. they described the work of Trevor J.Cox who proposes that aversion to bodily sounds developed as mechanism to protect against the contaminates/pathogens that can be found in such fluids. particularly in relation to the aerosolized spit particles that can be formed when chewing with ones mouth open. at the same time, cox claims that such responses are more extreme then would be necessary to avoid contamination, suggesting an modulatory role of meaning/context applied to the behaviors (i.e being rude) in heightening the reactions. (vitoratou et al., 2021)