Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 2021 Background: Research has increasingly identified disgust as a construct that has the ability to significantly impact clinical presentation and treatment of disorders such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Kayla K. Thayer +4 more
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Extending the behavioral immune system to political psychology: Are political conservativism and disgust sensitivity really related [PDF]
, 2010 Previous research suggests that several individual and cultural level attitudes, cognitions, and societal structures may have evolved to mitigate the pathogen threats posed by intergroup interactions.
Altemeyer B. +8 more
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Contamination and disgust: A cross-national comparison of Ghana and the United States
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 The emotion of disgust, with feelings of revulsion and behavioral withdrawal, make it a prime emotion to aid in the avoidance of sources of contamination, including sources of potential infectious disease.
Alexander Jay Skolnick +1 more
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Infectious disease and disgust sensitivity in Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2013 Data for manuscript "Disgust sensitivity is not associated with health in a rural Bangladeshi sample", consisting of an R analysis code, .por data file.
De barra, Micheal
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Individual differences in disgust sensitivity modulate neural responses to aversive/disgusting stimuli [PDF]
European Journal of Neuroscience, 2008 AbstractLittle is known about how individual differences in trait disgust sensitivity modulate the neural responses to disgusting stimuli in the brain. Thirty‐seven adult healthy volunteers completed the Disgust Scale (DS) and viewed alternating blocks of disgusting and neutral pictures from the International Affective Picture System while undergoing ...
Mataix-Cols, David +7 more
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Validation of the Serbian Translation of the Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale (DPSS)
Psychological Topics, 2020 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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People respond to GM food with disgust more than fear: Comment on Royzman, Cusimano and Leeman (2017) [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2018 Scott, Inbar and Rozin (2016) reported an association between greater disgust sensitivity (DS) and more negative attitudes towards genetically modified (GM) food.
Yoel Inbar, Sydney E. Scott
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Making your skin crawl:The role of tactile sensitivity in disease avoidance [PDF]
, 2017 Mounting evidence indicates that animals, including humans, have evolved a behavioral disease-avoidance system designed to facilitate the detection and avoidance of sources of pathogens, and that this system interacts with physiological defenses.
Cannell, Grace +5 more
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Pathogen disgust sensitivity: Individual differences in pathogen perception or pathogen avoidance?
Motivation and Emotion, 2021 The emotion disgust motivates the avoidance of pathogens and contaminants. Individuals differ in their tendency to experience disgust and this is reflected in pathogen disgust sensitivity. Yet, it remains unclear which differences in psychological processes are captured by pathogen disgust sensitivity. We tested two hypotheses about how the information
Florian van Leeuwen, Bastian Jaeger
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Developmental Changes in Infants' Categorization of Anger and Disgust Facial Expressions [PDF]
, 2017 For decades, scholars have examined how children first recognize emotional facial expressions. This research has found that infants younger than 10 months can discriminate negative, within-valence facial expressions in looking time tasks, and children ...
Harris, LT +3 more
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