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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, Massimo Mucciardi, Valentina Leonardi, Domenico Mallamace, Carmela Mento   +4 more
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Disgust in anorexia nervosa: Testing a theoretical model connecting negative body image to disgust propensity, disgust sensitivity, and self-disgust.

PLoS ONE
Consistent 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, Peter J de Jong, Rebecca Schulz, Klaske A Glashouwer   +3 more
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Disgust in response to some arthropods aligns with disgust provoked by pathogens

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2014
Insects are widely disliked by the public, despite the fact that they provide valuable ecosystem services and are vital components of ecosystems. Public support toward wildlife conservation is influenced by attitudes toward different taxa, thus, the ...
Amanda R. Lorenz, Julie C. Libarkin, Gabriel J. Ording   +2 more
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Disgust

, 2018
Disgust is a physiological reaction that can be elicited by the perception of objects linked to pathogens or infections, for example excrements, but that is often also associated with perceived moral violations, such as when people say, for example, that
Alberto Giubilini
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Disgust sensitivity.

, 2020
This chapter addresses the "laws" that guide individuals' disgust responding and discusses how insight in these laws may contribute to our understanding of how disgust might contribute to the persistence of fearful preoccupations. It explains how disgust and fear may be related and why disgust-based concerns may sometimes give rise to extreme fear. The
de Jong, Peter J., Borg, Charmaine
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Disgust

Filozofski Vestnik, 2016
Disgust is an emotion traditionally dismissed from aesthetic consideration because it seems to be so completely aversive that it cannot be positively employed in art.
Carolyn Kosmeyer
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Disgust Propensity, Not Disgust Sensitivity, Shapes the Reactivity of a Subjective Disgust Circuit in Humans. [PDF]

Hum Brain Mapp
ABSTRACT Disgust constitutes an evolutionary adaptive defensive‐avoidance response, yet humans vary markedly in their dispositional tendency to experience disgust (disgust propensity) and in their negative appraisal of such experience (disgust sensitivity).
Gan X, Zheng Z, Zhang R, Zhou F, Xu T, Qiu N, Wang J, Jiang H, Gao S, Wu Y, Klugah-Brown B, Yao D, Becker B.   +12 more
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Negative Body Image - Relationships with Heightened Disgust Propensity, Disgust Sensitivity, and Self-Directed Disgust

, 2017
The research project tests in two correlational studies among undergraduates a series of critical relationships: 1) trait disgust propensity would increase the risk of developing a negative body image by increasing the likelihood of feeling self-disgust,
Spreckelsen, BSc. P. von (University of Groningen), Glashouwer, Dr. K. (University of Groningen), Bennik, Dr. E.C. (University of Groningen), K. Glashouwer, Glashouwer, Klaske, E.C. Bennik, P. von Spreckelsen, von Spreckelsen, Paula; id_orcid, Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, Bennik, Elise   +9 more
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Temporal dynamics of disgust and morality: an event-related potential study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Disgust is argued to be an emotion that motivates the avoidance of disease-causing entities in the physical domain and unacceptable behaviors in the social-moral domain.
Qun Yang, Li Yan, Junlong Luo, An Li, Ye Zhang, Xuehong Tian, Dexuan Zhang   +6 more
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Association between obesity bias and trait disgust: Findings from the moral machine experiment with obese humans and animals

Cogent Psychology, 2022
Research has established an association between disgust propensity and stigmatizing reactions against obese individuals. We conducted two online experiments (n = 544) with the moral machine paradigm to investigate a disgust-related bias against obese ...
Albert Wabnegger, Anne Schienle
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