Résumé
Datasets used in the paper entitled "Disgusting odors trigger the oral immune system" published in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health - Juran, et al. 2022. study aims to test whether odorous sickness cues (i.e., disgusting odors) can trigger a preparatory immune response in humans. We show that subjective and objective disgust measures, as well as TNF-alpha levels in saliva increased immediately after exposure to disgusting odors in a sample of 36 individuals. Altogether, these results suggest a collaboration between behavioral mechanisms of pathogen avoidance in olfaction, mediated by the emotion of disgust, and mechanisms of pathogen elimination facilitated by inflammatory mediators. The datasets include participant's responses to questionnaires, biological inflammatory markers, and facial EMG responses to stimuli exposure. See paper for more details.