Disgust might be elicited by various sensory channels, including the sense of smell. It has been previously demonstrated that unpleasant odors emitted by an external source are more disgusting than those emitted by oneself (the source effect). As disgust’s main purpose is to help organisms avoid potentially dangerous, contaminating objects, individuals with visual or hearing sensory impairment (thus, with an impeded ability to detect cues indicating pathogen threat) might have developed an increased levels of olfactory disgust sensitivity (modality compensation in disgust sensitivity). We set out to investigate disgust sensitivity in olfaction using the Body Odor Disgust Scale (BODS) on a large sample of 74 deaf and 98 blind participants, with comparison to control groups without sensory impairment (N = 199 in total). The results did not support the hypothesis of modality compensation in disgust sensitivity. Contrary to previous research, neither sex nor age influenced the outcomes. Evidence for the source effect was found. Acquired data are interpreted in the light of social desirability. The emphasis put on the olfaction by blind and deaf individuals is discussed.

各种感官渠道（包括嗅觉）可能会引起恶心。先前已经证明，外部来源散发的令人不愉快的气味比自身散发的气味更令人恶心（来源效应）。作为厌恶的主要目的是为了帮助有机体避免潜在的危险，污染物品，个人有视觉或听觉感官缺陷（因此，检测表明病原体威胁线索的透水能力）可能已经开发的嗅觉厌恶敏感度（的增加水平方式补偿厌恶敏感性）。我们着手使用身体气味厌恶量表（BODS）对74名聋哑人和98名盲人参与者的大样本进行嗅觉嗅觉敏感性调查，与无感觉障碍的对照组（共N = 199）进行比较。结果不支持厌恶敏感性的情态补偿假说。与先前的研究相反，性别和年龄均未影响结果。找到了源效应的证据。根据社会需求对获取的数据进行解释。讨论了盲人和聋人对嗅觉的重视。