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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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The neurology of disgust [PDF]
Brain, 2007 Emotions form part of the fabric of our minds, and the scientific attempts to map these dimensions onto the underlying neural substrates date back to the first half of the last century. It has long been suggested that emotional functions are associated with subcortical structures (e.g. Cannon, 1927; Kluver & Bucy, 1937; Hess, 1954).
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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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Disgust sensitivity is not associated with health in a rural Bangladeshi sample. [PDF]
, 2014 Disgust can be considered a psychological arm of the immune system that acts to prevent exposure to infectious agents. High disgust sensitivity is associated with greater behavioral avoidance of disease vectors and thus may reduce infection risk. A cross-
A Hoefling +34 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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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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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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Explaining public support for counterproductive homeless policy: the role of disgust [PDF]
, 2017 Federal, state, and city governments spend substantial funds on programs intended to aid homeless people, and such programs attract widespread public support.
Piston, S.
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The neuropsychology of disgust [PDF]
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2013 Beginning with the landmark case of Phineas Gage (Harlow, 1868), studies of neurological patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) damage have time and again demonstrated a critical role for this brain area in various aspects of emotion, social cognition and decision-making.
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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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