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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]

open access: yes, 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 ...
A Hinz   +75 more
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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-

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +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

open access: yesScientific 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   +4 more
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Effects of vicarious disgust learning on the development of fear, disgust and attentional biases in children [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

Visually Activating Pathogen Disgust: A New Instrument for Studying the Behavioral Immune System

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Disgust sensitivity relates to moral foundations independent of political ideology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Moral judgments seem related to the emotion disgust. Evolutionary considerations might illuminate the psychological processes underlying this relation.
Dukes, Amber   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Individual Differences in Moral Disgust Do Not Predict Utilitarian Judgments, Sexual and Pathogen Disgust Do [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Differential disgust responding in people with cancer and implications for psychological wellbeing [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.   +21 more
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Disgust

open access: yes
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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Evaluating the Presence of Disgust in Animals

open access: yesAnimals
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
doaj   +1 more source

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