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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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The roles of impulsivity, self-regulation, and emotion regulation in the experience of self-disgust [PDF]

, 2018
Self-disgust is a distinct self-conscious emotion schema that is characterized by disgust appraisals directed towards the self. Recent studies have demonstrated an association between self-disgust and a range of psychological disorders, but there is a ...
Lazuras, Lambros, Overton, Paul, Powell, Philip, Ypsilanti, Antonia   +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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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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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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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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Insula and disgust

Rinsho Shinkeigaku, 2010
The disgust emotion is elicited by a variety of stimuli ranging from rotten food to immoral persons. When we encounter such disgusting stimuli, whether they are physical or social, we commonly experience rejection responses by the body such as nausea and revolt.
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Beyond Purity: Moral Disgust toward Bad Character [PDF]

, 2016
Previous studies support a link between moral disgust and impurity, while anger is linked to harm. We challenge this strict correspondence, and show that disgust is sensitive to information about moral character, even for harm violations.
Beaupré M. G., Haidt J., Kass L. R., Lewis M., Miller W. I., Nussbaum M., Pizarro D. A., Rozin P.   +7 more
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Food-Specific Inhibitory Control Mediates the Effect of Disgust Sensitivity on Body Mass Index

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Disgust is an emotion that drives food avoidance. People vary in their responses to disgust, which is captured by their disgust sensitivity. Disgust sensitivity is clinically significant because it can influence eating behaviors, and indirectly people’s ...
Xing Liu, Ji Li, Ofir Turel, Rui Chen, Qinghua He, Qinghua He, Qinghua He   +6 more
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The Effect of Trait and State Disgust on Fear of God and Sin

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
There is a growing literature suggesting disgust plays a major role in religiosity. However, the relationships between specific domains of disgust sensitivity and general religious fundamentalism or religious scrupulosity remains unknown and a lack of ...
Patrick A. Stewart, Thomas G. Adams, Carl Senior   +2 more
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