Assertion: disgust | /r/HasProperty | powerful tool
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: for discernment
type: PURPOSE
value: in social relationships
type: LOCATION
value: in essence
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In essence, disgust is a powerful tool for discernment; while, as Haidt et al argue, disgust may have originated from the need to keep physically repulsive foods out of the body’s interior (disgust literally means “bad taste”), it may have been “preadapted” as a rejection system more generally, allowing a culturally specific means of deciding not only what can be safely incorporated into the body, but also what is threatening to the borders of individuality or self, too.
text: That's why "disgust is much more powerful close up," Haidt says.
text: Disgust is a powerful force in social relationships, which makes it significant in persuasive situations.
text: Disgust is an extremely powerful reaction.
text: Disgust is a crude psychological tool that helps us sort what to eat from what not to eat, but there are also powerful cultural forces that help to suppress it.
text: Disgust can be a very powerful rhetorical tool to discredit, undermine or demonize an opponent or a group of people with whom you don't agree.