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. 2013 Sep 3;7:510. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00510

Table 1.

Description of disgust and control stimuli.

Vision Audition Touch Olfaction
Spoiled food Picture of spoiled pasta* Sound of a woman vomiting* Rubber pasta* Carbon disulfide
Illness related Picture of melanom at the toe Sound of a women coughing Tissue smeared with soap* Artificial sweat
Feces Picture of feculent toilet Sound of a person with diarrhea* Feces made of flour and water* Odor of feces
Control Picture of a pencil* Sound of a person writing Pencil* Odor of chocolate

Olfactory stimuli are diluted in polypropylenglycol. In detail: picture of melanom taken from Duale Reihe Dermatologie, by courtesy of Thieme Verlag, picture of feculent toilet taken from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS, 9301); sound of coughing women International Affective Digital Sounds (IADS, 242), sound of a person writing IADS (358); the following odors were used: Civette Base 847 (Fragrance Resources, Hamburg, Germany diluted up to 5% in polypropylenglycol), carbon disulfide (order # 180173; Sigma, Deisenhofen, Germany), artificial sweat (2-methyl-3-mercapto-butanol; Unilever, Port Sunlight, UK), Chocolade odor, Bell flavors and Fragrances,(diluted up to 66% in polypropylenglycol). All items marked with * were made by the experimenters.