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A Neurophysiological Approach to Differentiate Core Disgust and Moral Disgust
The association between core disgust and moral disgust has been a particularly contentious issue within the emotion literature. Preliminary neurophysiological evidence appeared to support a hybrid theory of the relation between core disgust and moral disgust, suggesting reactivity to bodily moral …
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An Examination of Disgust, its Measures, and Gender Differences in the Experience of Disgust Sensitivity
The emotion of disgust is understudied. It has been implicated in various forms of psychopathology, but its overall influence remains unclear. New and improved methods and constructs are required if we are to better understand the relationship of disgust in attitude formation and psychological …
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Disgust and religious morality of mind
… past research has found that people experience disgust in response to immoral behaviors (e.g., sibling incest, eating rotten meat, and unfairness), here I investigate the nature of disgust in response to religious thought violations. Can mere thoughts—independent of behavior—elicit disgust and …
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The Relationship Between Ideology and Disgust Sensitivity
… to examine the association between ideology and disgust sensitivity. Studying disgust offers an to assess how judgments have evolved over time due to a “gut” sense of danger. This emotion also plays a role in moral judgment: individuals label moral wrongdoings as disgusting which elicits a …
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The Role of Disgust in Eating Disorders
<p>Disgust, a basic emotional response, which influences approach/avoidance behaviors, has been studied in various psychological disorders, including anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. The current study employed exploratory correlations and hierarchical linear regressions (controlling for …
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Learners' and Patients' Experiences of Disgust in Academic Medicine
Disgust is a part of medical education. Whether in the anatomy lab, the operating room, or the hospital wards, medical school is often the first time that future doctors see human suffering manifested in bodies that elicit embarrassment, disgust and fear. Over the course of training, seeing such …
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Examining the roles of fear and disgust in emetophobia
… phobias has proposed that the emotion of disgust can play a role in some specific phobias, whereas fear and anxiety have long been considered the primary emotions involved. The present study examined the roles of fear and disgust in avoidance of a 30-minute video of increasingly intense …
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The Role of Self-Disgust within Disordered Eating Behaviour
Self-disgust has already been implicated within eating psychopathology (Moncrieff-Boyd & Nunn, 2014; Bell et al., 2017; Palmeria et al., 2017) and investigating this emotion may offer more of an understanding of the factors that contribute to the aetiology and maintenance of disordered eating …
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Danger appraisals as prospective predictors of disgust and avoidance
… danger appraisals significantly predicted both disgust and avoidance on the BAT, even when controlling for neuroticism, disgust sensitivity, and OCD symptoms. In contrast, looming germ spread appraisals and responsibility appraisals were not significant predictors of the BAT. Results from in …
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Disgust Sensitivity, Sexual Trauma History, and Female Sexual Functioning
… common reaction to unwanted sexual contact is disgust (Whealin & Barnett, 2010). However, the role of disgust in the relationship between sexual trauma and female sexual dysfunction has not been examined. This study explored how disgust and a history of sexual trauma related to different …
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Smokers' Responses to Fearful and Disgust-Eliciting Anti-Smoking Media
… negative emotional states, particularly disgust. In this study, we compared two sets of ads: those high in fear and disgust and those high in only fear. We hypothesized that subjective and physiological responses to ads high in fear and have a disgust component would be greater than for …
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The Anatomy of Disgust and the Sublime in Metamodern Painting
<p>The works in this series explore the application of Platonic binary oppositions of life/death and attraction/repulsion using Renaissance painting techniques that include the application of solvent and linseed oil glazes, as well as Galkyd Lite and MSA Gel, to assist in the realistic replication …
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Development of an experimental mood induction procedure for self-disgust.
Self-disgust, or disgust elicited by one or multiple aspects of the self, has been associated with a variety of psychological disorders and symptoms. While some preliminary research suggests self-disgust may have a causal role in psychopathology, no experimental methods for manipulating …
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On the Origin of Shame: Feelings of Disgust toward the Self
Shame and disgust are believed to be evolved psychological solutions to different adaptive challenges and, thus, independent emotions. Shame is thought to promote the maintenance of social hierarchies (Gilbert, 1997; Fessler, 2004), whereas disgust is believed to encourage disease avoidance (Curtis …
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The persuasive impact of disgust-provoking images in animal-rights campaigns
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Communication, 2010
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Differential Extinction of Disgust and Anxiety Among Victims of Sexual Traumatization
… in addition to fear, traumatic event-related disgust reactions may be integral to understanding the sequelae of sexual traumatization. Importantly, evidence broadly suggests compared to fear, disgust may be resistant to extinction. As such, conditioned disgust reactions may not evidence the …
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Gross Gods and Icky Atheism: Disgust Responses to Rejected Religious Beliefs
Disgust is an emotion that plays an important role in the maintenance and protection of physical and moral purity (Rozin, Lowery, Imada, & Haidt, 1999b). Using a repeated taste-test paradigm, the present research extends recent work on moral cognition by investigating disgust reactions to rejected …
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Disgust propensity, fear of contamination and underlying dimensions of obsessive-compulsive symptoms
… disorder (OCD), in the relationship between disgust and fear of contamination. In total, 170 undergratuate students at the University of Iceland answered questionnaires and data from 148 participants was analysed using linear regression. The mediating effects of harm avoidance and …
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Exploring the origins of disgust: Evolution of parasite avoidance behaviors in primates
付記する学位プログラム名: 霊長類学・ワイルドライフサイエンス・リーディング大学院
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