Moral anger, but not moral disgust, responds to intentionality [PDF]
We propose that, when people judge moral situations, anger responds to the contextual cues of harm and intentionality. On the other hand, disgust responds uniquely to whether or not a bodily norm violation has occurred; its apparent response to harm and ...
Giner-Sorolla, Roger +6 more
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Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behaviour. [PDF]
Disgust is an evolved psychological system for protecting organisms from infection through disease avoidant behaviour. This 'behavioural immune system', present in a diverse array of species, exhibits universal features that orchestrate hygienic ...
Aunger, Robert +5 more
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Disgust and anxiety: What came first, the chicken or the egg?
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.
M. Innocenti +6 more
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Investigating Structural Relationships of temperament Dimensions with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Mediated by Disgust Sensitivity [PDF]
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.
saeed asadnia +3 more
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Anger, disgust, and presumption of harm as reactions to taboo-breaking behaviors. [PDF]
Three experiments investigated the relationship between the presumption of harm in harm-free violations of creatural norms (taboos) and the moral emotions of anger and disgust.
Giner-Sorolla, Roger, Gutierrez, Roberto
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Disgust and Self-Disgust in Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
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 ...
S. Bektas +4 more
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The Disgust Sensitivity Scale [PDF]
This study proposes a new measure of disgust sensitivity, specifically in four domains: core, animal-reminder, contamination-based, and moral-sexual disgust. The measure will be called the Disgust Sensitivity Scale (DSS).
Tran, Ivory
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Social justifications for moral emotions: When reasons for disgust are less elaborated than for anger [PDF]
In the present research we test the unreasoning disgust hypothesis: moral disgust, in particular in response to a violation of a bodily norm, is less likely than moral anger to be justified with cognitively elaborated reasons.
Giner-Sorolla, Roger +6 more
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Visually Activating Pathogen Disgust: A New Instrument for Studying the Behavioral Immune System
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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Validation of the Serbian Translation of the Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale (DPSS)
Disgust represents a feeling of revulsion and is manifested as a response to adverse stimuli and indicates a motivation to withdraw from the stimulus. Several attempts were made to measure disgust, the earliest being the Disgust Sensitivity Scale (Haidt ...
Nikola Rokvić
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