The relationship between disgust sensitivity and serum cytokine levels in non-pregnant women: a generalization of previous results on pregnant population [PDF]
Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - HealthThe behavioral immune system functions via the emotion of disgust, which triggers avoidant reactions that protect the individual from pathogens.
Daniela Dlouhá +3 more
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Disgust and Self-Disgust in Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction Disgust and self-disgust are aversive emotions which are often encountered in people with eating disorders. Objectives The aim of this systematic review is to conduct a synthesis of studies that have measured aspects of disgust and self ...
S. Bektas +4 more
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The relation between disgust sensitivity and risk-taking propensity: A domain specific approach [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2021 Disgust is a cross-culturally recognized emotion that is characterized by avoidant or cautious tendencies. Accordingly, greater sensitivity to disgust may be related to less willingness to take risks.
Barış Sevi, Natalie J. Shook
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Negative body image: Relationships with heightened disgust propensity, disgust sensitivity, and self-directed disgust. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Consistent with the view that disgust might be involved in persistent body dissatisfaction, there is preliminary evidence showing a positive correlation between measures of negative body image and indices of both trait disgust and self-directed disgust ...
Paula von Spreckelsen +4 more
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Different timing features in brain processing of core and moral disgust pictures: an event-related potentials study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Disgust, an emotion motivating withdrawal from offensive stimuli, protects us from the risk of biological pathogens and sociomoral violations. Homogeneity of its two types, namely, core and moral disgust has been under intensive debate.
Xiangyi Zhang +4 more
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Social alienation in schizophrenia patients: association with insula responsiveness to facial expressions of disgust. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 INTRODUCTION: Among the functional neuroimaging studies on emotional face processing in schizophrenia, few have used paradigms with facial expressions of disgust.
Christian Lindner +13 more
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Self-Disgust Scale - Revised: Turkish adaptation, validity and reliability [PDF]
Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi, 2019 INTRODUCTION: Self-disgust is experienced toward one’s own behavioral, physical appearance or personality. Recent studies have emphasized the role of self-directed disgust in the development of several emotional and behavioral problems, especially ...
Basak Bahtiyar, Asiye Yildirim
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Disgust versus Lust: Exploring the Interactions of Disgust and Fear with Sexual Arousal in Women. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Sexual arousal is a motivational state that moves humans toward situations that inherently pose a risk of disease transmission. Disgust is an emotion that adaptively moves humans away from such situations.
Diana S Fleischman +3 more
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Value Disgust: Appreciating Stench’s Role in Attention, Retention and Deception
Rivista di Estetica, 2021 Philosophers, moral psychologists and neuroscientists have written plenty about disgust as it concerns foul actions, revolting images and unsavory tastes. Far less has been written about stinky delicacies.
Sue Spaid
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The relationship between meat disgust and meat avoidance—A chicken-and-egg problem
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 Feelings of disgust toward meat have been researched for at least 30 years, but so far the causal relationship that may link meat disgust and meat consumption has remained elusive. Two possible pathways have been proposed in previous literature: the more
Elisa Becker +4 more
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