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Previous studies demonstrated that some moist materials induce strong disgust. The present study investigated whether onomatopoeic words representing moisture modulate disgust evoked by visual images consisting of the moist materials. We used twenty images as stimuli, ten of which consisted of moist materials (moist images) and the rest consisted of dry materials (control images). Each picture was presented with each of three kinds of onomatopoeia (“betobeto”, “sarasara” and “tekuteku”), and participants evaluated the degree of perceived disgust for each image. The results showed that onomatopoeic words representing moisture modulate perceived disgust for both types of the images. The moist images with “betobeto” induced stronger disgust than the images with “tekuteku”. On the other hand, the dry images with “betobeto” induced stronger disgust than the images with “sarasara” and “tekuteku”. Our findings suggest that disgust is formed by integration of visual and verbal information.
