Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 2021 Background: Research has increasingly identified disgust as a construct that has the ability to significantly impact clinical presentation and treatment of disorders such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Kayla K. Thayer +4 more
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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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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 ...
Giner-Sorolla, Roger +1 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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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 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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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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The effect of disgust-related side-effects on symptoms of depression and anxiety in people treated for cancer: a moderated mediation model [PDF]
, 2016 As maladaptive disgust responses are linked to mental health problems, and cancer patients may experience heightened disgust as a result of treatments they receive, we explored the associations between disgust-related side-effects and symptoms of ...
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Visually Activating Pathogen Disgust: A New Instrument for Studying the Behavioral Immune System
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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Visual scanning patterns and executive function in relation to facial emotion recognition in aging [PDF]
, 2013 OBJECTIVE: The ability to perceive facial emotion varies with age. Relative to younger adults (YA), older adults (OA) are less accurate at identifying fear, anger, and sadness, and more accurate at identifying disgust.
Circelli, K. S. +2 more
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