Neural responses to facial and vocal expressions of fear and disgust [PDF]
, 1998 Neuropsychological studies report more impaired responses to facial expressions of fear than disgust in people with amygdala lesions, and vice versa in people with Huntington's disease.
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On the Origin of Shame: Does Shame Emerge From an Evolved Disease-Avoidance Architecture?
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 Shame and disgust are believed to be evolved psychological solutions to different adaptive challenges. Shame is thought to promote the maintenance of social hierarchies (Gilbert, 1997; Fessler, 2004), whereas disgust is believed to encourage disease ...
John A. Terrizzi Jr., Natalie J. Shook
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Deontological morality can be experimentally enhanced by increasing disgust. A transcranial direct current stimulation study [PDF]
, 2018 Previous studies empirically support the existence of a distinctive association between deontological (but not altruistic) guilt and both disgust and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms.
Collazzoni, Alberto +4 more
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A Danger to a Just Society? A Holistic view on Disgust
Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience, 2019 In this paper, I consider the relationship that obtains between disgust and the idea of a just society. Contra Martha C. Nussbaum, who argues that disgust poses dangers to a just society, I contend that disgust can either damage or promote the ...
Marco Tedeschini
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Exploring the Emotion of Disgust: Differences in Smelling and Feeling
Chemosensors, 2018 Disgust evolved to motivate humans away from disease cues and may heighten discernment of these cues. Disease cues are often best perceived through our sense of smell, however very few studies have examined how eliciting disgust influences smell ...
Lorenzo D. Stafford +3 more
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Moral anger, but not moral disgust, responds to intentionality [PDF]
, 2011 We propose that, when people judge moral situations, anger responds to the contextual cues of harm and intentionality. On the other hand, disgust responds uniquely to whether or not a bodily norm violation has occurred; its apparent response to harm and ...
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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 +2 more
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The mediating roles of disgust sensitivity and danger expectancy in relation to hand washing behaviour [PDF]
, 2010 Copyright © 2010 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive PsychotherapiesBackground: Recent interest in the role of vulnerability factors in obsessional washing has suggested that disgust sensitivity, danger expectancy and health anxiety may be ...
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Disgust and Anxiety Sensitivity as Vulnerability Factors in Misophonia
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Objective: This study was aimed at exploring the association between disgust sensitivity and misophonia. We explored the mediating mechanisms underlying this relationship by specifically examining the mediating role of components of anxiety sensitivity ...
Usha Barahmand +4 more
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Disgust implicated in obsessive-compulsive disorder [PDF]
, 1997 Psychiatric classificatory systems consider obsessions and compulsions as forms of anxiety disorder. However, the neurology of diseases associated with obsessive-compulsive symptoms suggests the involvement of fronto-striatal regions likely to be ...
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