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The sensory channel of presentation alters subjective ratings and autonomic responses towards disgusting stimuli -Blood pressure, heart rate and skin conductance in response to visual, auditory, haptic and olfactory presented disgusting stimuli-

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
Disgust causes specific reaction patterns, observable in mimic responses and body reactions. Most research on disgust deals with visual stimuli. However, pictures may cause another disgust experience than sounds, odors or tactile stimuli.
Ilona eCroy, Ilona eCroy, Kerstin eLaqua, Frank eSuess, Peter eJoraschky, Tjalf eZiemssen, Thomas eHummel   +6 more
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Longitudinal changes in disgust sensitivity during pregnancy and the early postpartum period, and the role of recent health problems

Scientific Reports, 2023
Disgust is an essential part of the behavioral immune system, protecting the individual from infection. According to the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis (CPH), disgust sensitivity increases in times of immunosuppression, potentially including ...
Daniela Dlouhá, S. Craig Roberts, Jana Hlaváčová, Kamila Nouzová, Šárka Kaňková   +4 more
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Differential disgust responding in people with cancer and implications for psychological wellbeing [PDF]

, 2017
Objectives: Evidence suggests that disgust responses, known to negatively affect psychological wellbeing, may differ in people with cancer. We performed the first quantitative investigation of three discrete types of disgust trait - disgust propensity ...
Alanazi F. S. M., Breslow N. E., de Jong P. J., Fox J., Fox J. R., Gaind S., Gea-Banacloche J. C., Gilbert P., Gray J. A., Haffiezhah A. Azlan, Jane Simpson, Paul G. Overton, Philip A. Powell, Powell P. A., Power M. J., Reynolds L. M., Rozin P., Rozin P., Schover L., Tabachnick B. G., Vidya M. R., Walker B. L.   +21 more
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Pandemic elevates sensitivity to moral disgust but not pathogen disgust

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, Šárka Kaňková, Jitka Třebická Fialová, Jana Hlaváčová, Jan Havlíček   +4 more
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Individual Differences in Moral Disgust Do Not Predict Utilitarian Judgments, Sexual and Pathogen Disgust Do [PDF]

, 2017
The role of emotional disgust and disgust sensitivity in moral judgment and decision-making has been debated intensively for over 20 years. Until very recently, there were two main evolutionary narratives for this rather puzzling association.
Drosinou, Maria-Anna, Laakasuo, Michael, Sundvall, Jukka   +2 more
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Effects of vicarious disgust learning on the development of fear, disgust and attentional biases in children [PDF]

, 2018
Fear and disgust are defensive emotions that have evolved to protect us from harm. While fear is thought to elicit an instinctive response to deal with immediate threat, disgust elicits immediate sensory rejection to avoid contamination.
Askew, Chris, Reynolds, Gemma
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Disgust

This is a preprint of an encyclopedia entry that will be published asMeule, A. (2025). Disgust. In J. A. Schermer (Ed.), Elgar Encyclopaedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Karla P. Garcia, Ray Garza
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Disgust sensitivity relates to moral foundations independent of political ideology [PDF]

, 2017
Moral judgments seem related to the emotion disgust. Evolutionary considerations might illuminate the psychological processes underlying this relation.
Dukes, Amber, Park, Justin H, Tybur, Joshua M, Van Leeuwen, Florian   +3 more
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Evaluating the Presence of Disgust in Animals

Animals
The emotion of disgust in humans is widely considered to represent a continuation of the disease-avoidance behavior ubiquitous in animals. The extent to which analogs of human disgust are evident in nonhuman animals, however, remains unclear.
Trevor I. Case, Richard J. Stevenson
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The emotion of disgust in Italian students: a measure of the synthetic disgust index

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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