Disgust propensity and disgust sensitivity: Separate constructs that are differentially related to specific fears [PDF]
Personality and Individual Differences, 2006 Studies concentrating on interindividual differences in experiencing disgust have indicated that disgust propensity is associated with certain disorders, such as fear of blood and fear of spiders (de Jong & Merckelbach, 1998). However, current indices of disgust propensity suffer from conceptual overlap with other measures of psychopathology ...
Peter J De Jong, Kate Cavanagh
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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 ...
Xing Liu +6 more
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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 ...
G. Santarelli +6 more
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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.
Fleur Boonstra +3 more
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Developing an implicit measure of disgust propensity and disgust sensitivity: Examining the role of implicit disgust propensity and sensitivity in obsessive-compulsive tendencies [PDF]
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2012 There is increasing evidence that disgust responding occurs at both a primary and secondary level in the form of disgust propensity and disgust sensitivity. The unique contributions of anxiety and disgust need to be established if disgust is to be implicated in the etiology of anxiety disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Emma Nicholson, Dermot Barnes-Holmes
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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.
Benjamin H. Schnapp +5 more
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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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Sympathetic and parasympathetic responses to a core disgust video clip as a function of disgust propensity and disgust sensitivity [PDF]
Biological Psychology, 2011 It is generally assumed that disgust is accompanied by increased activation of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS). However, empirical support for the role of PNS in disgust is scarce. This study tested whether (i) activation of the PNS is indeed involved in disgust and (ii) disgust-induced autonomic activation is especially pronounced in ...
Peter J De Jong, Madelon L Peters
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The Association Between Disgust Sensitivity and Negative Attitudes Toward Homosexuality: The Mediating Role of Moral Foundations [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Previous studies have found that “disgust-sensitive” individuals have negative attitudes toward gay and lesbian people, but the underlying mechanisms for such attitudes remain unclear. Based on moral foundations theory, the current paper assumes that the
Ruile Wang +4 more
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