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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"disgust sensitivity"”.
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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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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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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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The Ick Factor: Explaining the Term Through Lenses of Sexual Disgust and Avoidant Attachment Style
… and whether individual differences in sexual disgust sensitivity and attachment style help explain icks and reactions to icks. Participants (N = 236) completed a survey in which they rated fabricated dating profiles and first-date vignettes that either included or excluded icks. Participants …
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How Orderliness Informs a More Comprehensive Model of Political Orientation
… relevant to political orientation, specifically disgust sensitivity. The results found that Orderliness mediated the association between disgust sensitivity and political conservatism, and that this effect was especially relevant for Contamination/Pathogen disgust. Studies 3 and 4 investigated …
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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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Do Expectancies Mediate the Relationship Between Sensitivities and Fearfulness?: An Alternative to Reiss' Expectancy Theory
… Reiss' fundamental sensitivities (e.g., "anxiety sensitivity"), expectancies (e.g., "expectancy of physical injury or harm") and the intensity of common fears. Informed by findings concerning fear-related outcome expectancies, a system for measuring expectancies was developed for this study called …
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Examining the Sociolinguistic Expression of Moral Disgust, and Investigating the Role of the Emotion in Inter- and Intra-Group Processes.
Informed by Tybur et al’s (2009) Three Domains of Disgust Model, I used a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies to develop and test a prototypical model of Moral Disgust and investigate how the emotion functions in both intra- and inter-group processes. I conducted thematic …
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Evaluating the influence of individual traits, emotions and information on consumer acceptance of entomophagy : a choice modelling experiment
… have investigated the role of food neophobia and disgust sensitivity in modelling the acceptance of entomophagy, but the models lack explicit focus on individual traits and emotions in explaining variance in choice behaviour. Secondly, the experimental studies used to probe the role of information …
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Subliminal Exposure to Empathy Primes: A New Method to Reduce Intergroup Bias?
… in prejudice-relevant variables (i.e., Disgust Sensitivity, Intergroup Disgust-Sensitivity, Intergroup Anxiety, Social Dominance Orientation, Right-wing Authoritarianism). Study 2 considered a different target category (i.e., Blacks) and attempted to strengthen the effects found by …
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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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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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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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Exploring the Role of Implicit Cognition in the Context of Disgust in Individuals With and Without a Diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
… assessment of relating behaviour pertaining to disgust propensity (initial feeling of disgust) and disgust sensitivity (appraisal of the initial feeling) and sought to determine whether this behaviour was relevant to obsessive-compulsive tendencies and overt avoidance behaviour (n=33). Disgust …
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Toward A Conceptualization Of Emetophobia: Examining Intolerance Of Uncertainty As A Unique Predictor Of Symptoms
… whether individual differences in Anxiety Sensitivity (AS), Disgust Sensitivity (DS), and Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) are associated with symptoms of emetophobia, whether AS predicts symptoms of emetophobia above and beyond DS, IU, and expected covariates of anxiety and depressive …
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The Moral Foundations of Knowledge: Seeking and Avoiding COVID-19 Information
… relationship between political conservatism, disgust sensitivity, and disease avoidance. Yet, despite this link, recent research suggests that political conservatism is negatively associated with attention to, and knowledge about, COVID-19. The current work draws on the intersection of moral …
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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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A mixed methods exploration of picky eating in adulthood
… and path analysis, indicating that picky eating, disgust sensitivity, anxiety and fear of negative evaluation all predict impaired eating related quality of life. These findings are then drawn together in a proposed theoretical model explaining the direction of these relationships. Implications of …