Disgust Sensitivity and Support for Organ Donation: Time to Take Disgust Seriously. [PDF]
J Gen Intern Med, 2020 Abstract Background There are currently roughly 10,000 Germans on the organ waiting list, and that number is over 113,000 in the USA. There is a clear need to increase support for organ donation in general and to increase the number of registered donors in particular.
Mazur LB, Gormsen E.
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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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Disgust in anorexia nervosa: Testing a theoretical model connecting negative body image to disgust propensity, disgust sensitivity, and self-disgust. [PDF]
PLoS ONEConsistent with the view that disgust is involved in the persistence of eating disorder symptomatology, it has been found that disgust propensity is related to a negative body image.
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Voxel-based morphometry of disgust sensitivity. [PDF]
Soc Neurosci, 2018 Difficulties with the regulation of negative affect have been extensively studied in neuroimaging research. However, dysregulation of a specific emotion, disgust, has hardly been investigated. In the present study, we used voxel-based morphometry to identify whether gray matter volume (GMV) of frontal regions is correlated with personality traits ...
Wabnegger A, Übel S, Schienle A.
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Disgust sensitivity and psychopathic behavior: A narrative review [PDF]
Translational NeuroscienceHumans live under constant threat from pathogenic microorganisms and minimizing such threat has been a major evolutionary selective force in shaping human behavior and health. A particular adaptive mechanism against the harm caused by parasites and their
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Domains of disgust sensitivity: revisited factor structure of the questionnaire for the assessment of disgust sensitivity (QADS) in a cross-sectional, representative german survey [PDF]
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2010 Background Disgust sensitivity is defined as a predisposition to experiencing disgust, which can be measured on the basis of the Disgust Scale and its German version, the Questionnaire for the Assessment of Disgust Sensitivity (QADS). In various studies,
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Disgust sensitivity is not associated with health in a rural Bangladeshi sample. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2014 Disgust can be considered a psychological arm of the immune system that acts to prevent exposure to infectious agents. High disgust sensitivity is associated with greater behavioral avoidance of disease vectors and thus may reduce infection risk. A cross-
de Barra M, Islam MS, Curtis V.
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The relationship between disgust propensity and disgust sensitivity with contamination/washing obsessive-compulsive symptoms in students [PDF]
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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Maggots, Mucous and Monkey Meat: Does Disgust Sensitivity Affect Case Mix Seen During Residency? [PDF]
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2019 Introduction: Emergency physicians encounter scenarios daily that many would consider “disgusting,” including exposure to blood, pus, and stool.
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