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Emotional Reaction to Fear- and Disgust-Evoking Snakes: Sensitivity and Propensity in Snake-Fearful Respondents

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
This paper continues our previous study in which we examined the respondents’ reaction to two morphologically different snake stimuli categories – one evoking exclusively fear and another evoking exclusively disgust.
Silvie Rádlová, Jakub Polák, Jakub Polák, Markéta Janovcová, Markéta Janovcová, Kristýna Sedláčková, Kristýna Sedláčková, Šárka Peléšková, Šárka Peléšková, Eva Landová, Eva Landová, Daniel Frynta, Daniel Frynta   +12 more
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The relationship between disgust propensity and disgust sensitivity with contamination/washing obsessive-compulsive symptoms in students

Fiyz̤, 2018
Background: There is increasing attention for the role of disgust in psychopathology, especially contamination/washing obsessive-compulsive symptoms by Western researchers in recent decades. There has not been much attention paid to this disorder in Iran.
Zahra Zanjani, Mohammad Reza Shaiiri
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Disgust assessment: Factorial structure and psychometric properties of the French version of the Disgust Propension and Sensibility Scale Revised-12.

PLoS ONE, 2019
The present study examined the internal and external validity of the French version of the 12-item Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale-Revised (DPSS-12) in a nonclinical sample from the general population.
Caroline Novara, Julie Boiché, Cindy Lebrun, Alexandra Macgregor, Yohan Mateo, Stéphane Raffard   +5 more
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Disgust Propensity, Not Disgust Sensitivity, Shapes the Reactivity of a Subjective Disgust Circuit in Humans. [PDF]

Hum Brain Mapp
ABSTRACT Disgust constitutes an evolutionary adaptive defensive‐avoidance response, yet humans vary markedly in their dispositional tendency to experience disgust (disgust propensity) and in their negative appraisal of such experience (disgust sensitivity).
Gan X, Zheng Z, Zhang R, Zhou F, Xu T, Qiu N, Wang J, Jiang H, Gao S, Wu Y, Klugah-Brown B, Yao D, Becker B.   +12 more
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Relationships between brain activity, tryptophan-related gut metabolites, and autism symptomatology [PDF]

Nature Communications
While it has been suggested that alterations in the composition of gut microbial metabolites may play a causative role in the pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it is not known how gut microbial metabolites are associated with ASD ...
Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, Sofronia M. Ringold, Aditya Jayashankar, Emily Kilroy, Christiana Butera, Jonathan P. Jacobs, Skylar Tanartkit, Swapna Mahurkar-Joshi, Ravi R. Bhatt, Mirella Dapretto, Jennifer S. Labus, Emeran A. Mayer   +11 more
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The Challenge of the Yuck Factor in Public Acceptance of Engineered Living Materials [PDF]

Global Challenges
Engineered Living Materials (or ELMs) are an emerging class of materials that utilize microorganisms that can either generate their own structure (such as biofilms) or that can be incorporated into synthetic matrices using technologies (such as 3D ...
Kristen K. Intemann, Hannah R. Lavoie, Kirke D. A. Elsass, Brandon G. Scott, Robin Gerlach   +4 more
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A brief measure of disgust propensity [PDF]

Current Psychology, 2020
AbstractIn the context of large-scale surveys, pre-screening or longitudinal studies, researchers may be faced with the choice of using a brief measure of disgust propensity (DP: the general tendency to respond with the emotion of disgust to any given situation) or using no measure at all.
Anne Schienle, Sasa Zorjan, Albert Wabnegger   +2 more
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Mental health professionals’ attitudes towards patients with borderline personality disorder: The role of disgust

European Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction Mental health professionals’ derogatory attitudes towards patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) may negatively affect treatment outcomes.
C. Papathanasiou, S. Stylianidis
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Disgust and anxiety: What came first, the chicken or the egg?

European Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Disgust is a basic emotion characterized by the feeling of revulsion and evoked by unpleasant stimuli such as contaminated food, poor hygiene and contact with sick or dead organisms.
M. Innocenti, G. Santarelli, V. Gironi, V. Faggi, L. Lucherini Angeletti, N. Giaquinta, V. Ricca   +6 more
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Disgust Propensity and the Bitter Aftertaste Response [PDF]

Chemosensory Perception, 2020
Abstract Introduction A high level of disgust propensity (the general tendency to respond with the emotion of disgust to any given situation) is associated with an increased sensitivity to bitter taste. The present study examined the relationship between disgust propensity and the sensitivity to bitter aftertaste.
Anne Schienle, Florian Osmani, Carina Schlintl   +2 more
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