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.
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Investigating Structural Relationships of temperament Dimensions with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Mediated by Disgust Sensitivity [PDF]
پژوهشهای علوم شناختی و رفتاری, 2021 The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationships between the dimensions of temperament, disgust sensitivity and obsessive-compulsive disorder using structural equation modeling.
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Individual Differences in Moral Disgust Do Not Predict Utilitarian Judgments, Sexual and Pathogen Disgust Do [PDF]
, 2017 The role of emotional disgust and disgust sensitivity in moral judgment and decision-making has been debated intensively for over 20 years. Until very recently, there were two main evolutionary narratives for this rather puzzling association.
Drosinou, Maria-Anna +2 more
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Disgust and Self-Disgust in Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction Disgust and self-disgust are aversive emotions which are often encountered in people with eating disorders. Objectives The aim of this systematic review is to conduct a synthesis of studies that have measured aspects of disgust and self ...
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Differential disgust responding in people with cancer and implications for psychological wellbeing [PDF]
, 2017 Objectives: Evidence suggests that disgust responses, known to negatively affect psychological wellbeing, may differ in people with cancer. We performed the first quantitative investigation of three discrete types of disgust trait - disgust propensity ...
Alanazi F. S. M. +21 more
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Deontological morality can be experimentally enhanced by increasing disgust. A transcranial direct current stimulation study [PDF]
, 2018 Previous studies empirically support the existence of a distinctive association between deontological (but not altruistic) guilt and both disgust and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms.
Collazzoni, Alberto +4 more
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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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Effects of vicarious disgust learning on the development of fear, disgust and attentional biases in children [PDF]
, 2018 Fear and disgust are defensive emotions that have evolved to protect us from harm. While fear is thought to elicit an instinctive response to deal with immediate threat, disgust elicits immediate sensory rejection to avoid contamination.
Askew, Chris, Reynolds, Gemma
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Visually Activating Pathogen Disgust: A New Instrument for Studying the Behavioral Immune System
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The emotion of disgust plays a key role in the behavioral immune system, a set of disease-avoidance processes constituting a frontline defense against pathogenic threats.
Paxton D. Culpepper +3 more
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Gender and Physiological Effects in Connecting Disgust to Political Preferences [PDF]
, 2011 Sensitivity to disgust predicts social attitudes, but this relationship can shift depending on gender and whether response to disgust is measured through surveys or physiological tests.
Friesen, Amanda, Jacobs, Carly M
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