Negative body image: Relationships with heightened disgust propensity, disgust sensitivity, and self-directed disgust. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Consistent with the view that disgust might be involved in persistent body dissatisfaction, there is preliminary evidence showing a positive correlation between measures of negative body image and indices of both trait disgust and self-directed disgust ...
Paula von Spreckelsen +4 more
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Body odour disgust sensitivity predicts authoritarian attitudes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Authoritarianism has resurfaced as a research topic in political psychology, as it appears relevant to explain current political trends. Authoritarian attitudes have been consistently linked to feelings of disgust, an emotion that is thought to have ...
Marco Tullio Liuzza +6 more
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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on disgust sensitivity in a sample of UK adults [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic led to the introduction of a range of infection prevention and control (IPC) measures that resulted in dramatic changes in people's lives however these IPC measures are not practiced consistently across the population. One predictor
Peter Carr +4 more
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Longitudinal changes in disgust sensitivity during pregnancy and the early postpartum period, and the role of recent health problems [PDF]
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 +4 more
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Disgust sensitivity in early pregnancy as a response to high pathogen risk [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionConsidered a part of the behavioral immune system (BIS), disgust sensitivity is expected to be adjusting as a response to the actual level of the environmental health risks.MethodsIn this preregistered study, we tested the hypothesis that ...
Šárka Kaňková +6 more
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Investigating the conservatism-disgust paradox in reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic: A reexamination of the interrelations among political ideology, disgust sensitivity, and pandemic response. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Research has documented robust associations between greater disgust sensitivity and (1) concerns about disease, and (2) political conservatism. However, the COVID-19 disease pandemic raised challenging questions about these associations.
Benjamin C Ruisch +6 more
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Disgust Sensitivity Among Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The emotion of disgust is suggested to be an adaptation that evolved to keep us away from sources of infection. Therefore, individuals from populations with greater pathogen stress should have a greater disgust sensitivity.
Karolina Miłkowska +3 more
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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Disgust Sensitivity [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 There have been few tests of whether exposure to naturalistic or experimental disease-threat inductions alter disgust sensitivity, although it has been hypothesized that this should occur as part of disgust’s disease avoidance function.
Richard J. Stevenson +2 more
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The impact of maternal disgust sensitivity from pregnancy until 3 years postpartum on the early development of disgust sensitivity in the child [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionDisgust plays a key role in pathogen avoidance. In children, it starts to develop alongside cognition, emotion processing, and social skills around the third year.
Šárka Kaňková +5 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 +4 more
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