Table 3 QADS communalities, factor loadings (principal axis analysis, Promax-rotated, Kappa = 5, N = 1221) and item-scale-correlations

Factor 1 - Core Disgust

03 You smell vomit. ⁵

23 You enter a heavily soiled gas-station restroom. ⁴

12 You see someone vomit. ⁵

18 You smell spoiled food. ³

25 Someone with terribly bad breath speaks to you. ²

29 You see maggots on a piece of meat in an outdoor garbage pail. ³

22 A bad odor reaches your nose. You look down and see that you have stepped into dog feces. ²

31 While you are walking through a tunnel under a railroad track, you smell urine. ²

02 You are biting into a grilled grasshopper. ⁵

05 Someone profusely smelling of sweat takes the bus seat next to you. ²

08 You try to eat monkey meat. ⁵

28 You are about to drink a glass of milk when you smell that it's spoiled. ³

33 You are hungry. In front of you there is a bowl of your favorite soup that had been stirred with a used but thoroughly washed flyswatter. ⁴

37 You take raw egg-white into your mouth. ⁵

17 While eating soup, your tongue comes in contact with a piece of hair. ²

Factor 2 - Animal Reminder Disgust

13 You touch a dead body. ¹

16 You are to ride in a hearse. ¹

24 You touch a dead person's head. ¹

32 You accidentally touch the ashes of a person who has been cremated. ¹

26 You have touched the stump of someone's amputated limb. ¹

21 While assisting in a medical emergency, you are to press against a heavily bleeding wound. ¹

06 You enter a crypt, where there are coffins. ¹

20 During a walk in the woods, you see a decomposing animal. ³

30 You are walking barefoot on concrete and you step on an earthworm. ³

Factor 3 - Contamination Disgust

34 You see a person with greasy hair. ⁴

19 Someone with dirty fingernails hands you a book. ⁴

09 A friend tells you he generally doesn't use a deodorant. ⁴

01 Someone doesn't clean his/her hands after using the restroom. ⁴

35 In a restaurant, you see someone eat his food messily with his fingers. ²

15 You visit your favorite restaurant, and the cook has a cold. ⁴

10 You see a cockroach in someone's house. ³

36 You discover that a friend of yours changes his/her underwear only once a week. ⁴

04 You have to remove a hairy dead spider from your room. ³

14 You accidentally touch the toilet seat in a public restroom. ⁴

27 You see someone put ketchup on vanilla ice cream and eat it. ³

11 You hear the mucus rattle as someone is clearing his/her throat. ²

07 You are eating a steak and find that it is still rare on the inside. ⁵