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You visit a friend who lives in a building that uses a wastewater reuse system, which takes water from the shower and toilet, cleans and sterilizes it, and returns it through the faucet. The water is continually scientifically tested and monitored for purity.

1a. How distressed would you be to drink a glass of water, which has been scientifically treated, but was originally wastewater from showers and toilets?

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You dropped your wallet into a toilet that you know has just been cleaned and sterilized.

2a. How distressed do you feel sticking your hand into the toilet water to grab your wallet?

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You find out that the refurbished video camera you just bought on sale was used by a child pornographer.

3a. How distressed do you feel using this video camera that a child pornographer used?

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A restaurant in your neighborhood is relocating and gave you a box of kitchen supplies. Later you find out a professional chef’s knife in the box was used to stab somebody.

4a. How distressed do you feel using that knife that was used to stab somebody?

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You are spending the night in a 5-star hotel located in a safe, upscale neighborhood. You find out that the guest staying in your hotel room the night before had a prostitute.

5a. How distressed do you feel sleeping in that bed?

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You go to an elegant spa and take a clean, freshly drawn bath. You find out that someone ejaculated in the same bath 2 days ago.

6a. How distressed do you feel being in the bath?

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You are sitting in a thoroughly cleaned movie seat, and you find out someone vomited in the same seat the day before.

7a. How distressed do you feel sitting in that movie seat?

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You are listening to a famous piece of classical music by Wagner, “Flight of the Valkyries”, when a credible source tells you that Hitler was so inspired by this song that he taught the Nazis to kill to it.

8a. How distressed do you feel listening to this music that inspired Hitler?

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A cockroach runs across a plate of your favorite cookies. The cockroach only touches one cookie but none of the other cookies.

9a. How distressed do you feel eating one of the untouched cookies?

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You are browsing through a gallery and notice this lovely photograph of a group of children playing in a field. When you go to buy it, you find out that the picture was taken by a war photographer who had known of a landmine in the field, but chose to take the picture instead of saving one of the children’s lives.

10a. How distressed do you feel purchasing this photograph?

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You are in a world-renowned hospital for a routine surgery. You find out the last two patients in the operating room where your surgery is scheduled died of complications unrelated to the surgery and with two different doctors.

11a. How distressed do you feel having your operation in this room?

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You are swimming in a friend’s brand new pool, and you overhear their spouse saying that someone next to you in the pool has just been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

12a. How distressed do you feel swimming in the pool with a person who has HIV/AIDS?

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You get the job of your dreams but find out the person you are replacing died of a heart attack in the same office you will be using.

13a. How distressed do you feel moving into the office where someone died?

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You are in an airport ready to board a flight. On the news you hear a plane that took off from the same airport earlier that day crashed due to a pilot’s error.

14a. How distressed do you feel boarding your flight?

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You receive a box of used clothing from a distant peer or family member whose clothes you were always fond of and who recently passed away.

15a. How distressed do you feel wearing these clothes?

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You find out that touching the doorframe on the way out of your home can lead to a safe journey back.

16a. How distressed do you feel NOT touching the doorframe as you walk out of your home?

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You are eating next to a celebrity, and they give you a personal item of theirs for good luck.

17a. How pleased are you to receive this personal item?

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You are about to take an important test, and you are packing your bag. Along with your other pens, you find a pen of your very intelligent friend who went to Harvard University.

18a. How pleased are you to use this pen while taking your test?

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A friend shows you a video of a person having sex with a horse. You later meet this same person at a holiday party, and they introduce themselves to you.

19a. How distressed are you to shake their hand?

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A co-worker is in an intimate relationship with his sibling. You invite this co-worker to your wedding, and he gives you and your partner a nice piece of lingerie.

20a. How distressed are you to receive this lingerie?

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You are walking by a cemetery, and your friend picks an apple from a flourishing apple tree and hands it to you.

21a. How distressed are you to eat this apple from the cemetery?

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You are taking a sketching class and find out the charcoal you are using is made of cremated human ashes.

22a. How distressed are you to use this charcoal made of cremated ashes?

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You are at a party, and there is a dartboard with a photograph of an adorable baby. Your friend asks you to join in a game of darts where the target is the baby’s nose.

23a. How distressed are you to throw the darts at the baby?

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You are replacing a photograph of your close relative in a frame with an updated version. When you take the photograph out it starts to rip. You will not be able to get it out completely without ripping off the head of your close relative.

24a. How distressed are you to rip off the head of your close relative?

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You find a doll that shares a strong resemblance to you. While crossing the street, you notice it fell out of your bag. Before you have a chance to run back and pick it up, a truck speeds by and runs it over.

25a. How distressed are you that the doll that resembles you got run over by a truck?

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You are engaging in an embarrassing sexual activity when you notice a picture of your family gazing in your direction.

26a. How distressed are you to see your family gazing at you while you engage in an embarrassing sexual activity?

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You are deciding on a name for your future child and have a few names you like. One of the top choices shares the name of someone who is famous and very accomplished..

27a. How pleased would you be choosing the name of someone famous?

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For the following four items, imagine that your friend brings over some gifts from a novelty store.

Floss that looks like black curly pubic hair.

28a. How distressed are you to use the floss that looks like pubic hair?

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Vomit colored toothpaste that is in every other way the same as regular toothpaste.

29a. How distressed are you to use the vomit colored toothpaste?

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Red cotton candy shaped like an expanded used tampon.

30a. How distressed are you to eat the cotton candy shaped like a tampon?

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A water bottle that looks like a urinary drainage bag with a catheter attached to it.

31a. How distressed are you to drink out of the catheter?

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