Disgust in anorexia nervosa: Testing a theoretical model connecting negative body image to disgust propensity, disgust sensitivity, and self-disgust. [PDF]
PLoS ONEConsistent with the view that disgust is involved in the persistence of eating disorder symptomatology, it has been found that disgust propensity is related to a negative body image.
Fleur Boonstra +3 more
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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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The impact of maternal disgust sensitivity from pregnancy until 3 years postpartum on the early development of disgust sensitivity in the child [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionDisgust plays a key role in pathogen avoidance. In children, it starts to develop alongside cognition, emotion processing, and social skills around the third year.
Šárka Kaňková +5 more
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Visually Activating Pathogen Disgust: A New Instrument for Studying the Behavioral Immune System [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The emotion of disgust plays a key role in the behavioral immune system, a set of disease-avoidance processes constituting a frontline defense against pathogenic threats.
Paxton D. Culpepper +3 more
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The emotion of disgust in Italian students: a measure of the synthetic disgust index [PDF]
International Journal of Psychological Research, 2013 Research in the field of emotions has highlighted that men and women differ as regards the perception and reaction to disgust. The aim of our study was to analyse, by means of a questionnaire on disgust, any gender differences regarding this feeling in ...
Salvatore Settineri +4 more
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Pandemic elevates sensitivity to moral disgust but not pathogen disgust [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 The behavioral immune system, with disgust as its motivational part, serves as the first line of defense in organisms’ protection against pathogens. Laboratory studies indicate that disgust sensitivity adaptively adjusts to simulated environmental threat,
Dagmar Schwambergová +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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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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Associations between nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, disgust sensitivity, and first-trimester maternal serum free β-hCG and PAPP-A [PDF]
, 2023 Elevated levels of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (NVP) and disgust sensitivity have been observed in the first trimester and both are thought to have a protective function for the mother and her fetus.
Havlíček, Jan +15 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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