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 ...
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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.
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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
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 Mediating Role of Disgust Sensitivity in the Relationship Between Professional Perception and Professional Belonging Among Midwifery Students: A Cross‐Sectional Study [PDF]
Nursing OpenAim To examine the relationships among disgust sensitivity, professional perception and professional belonging in midwifery students, and to test whether disgust sensitivity statistically mediates the perception–belonging association.
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Food-Specific Inhibitory Control Mediates the Effect of Disgust Sensitivity on Body Mass Index [PDF]
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 ...
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Anxiety disorders and eating disorder symptoms: The role of disgust sensitivity [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction The comorbidity between anxiety disorders (AD) and eating disorders (ED) has already been well discovered, and because of the link between disgust, food choice and rejection (which appear to be key factors of eating psychopathology), it ...
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