The relationship between disgust sensitivity and BMI: Is the food disgusting or am I?

2021 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 104222
Author(s):  
Sara Spinelli ◽  
Caitlin Cunningham ◽  
Lapo Pierguidi ◽  
Caterina Dinnella ◽  
Erminio Monteleone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Disgust sensitivity and moral judgments of purity: The role of transgression weirdness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fieke Maria Antoinet Wagemans ◽  
Mark John Brandt ◽  
Marcel Zeelenberg
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Total N ◽  
Moral Domains ◽  
Moral Transgressions ◽  
The Relationship

Disgust sensitivity is more strongly related to moral judgments in the purity domain than to moral judgments in other moral domains. While this finding highlights the distinctiveness of moral domains, anti-modularity accounts suggest that the relationship is caused by the relative weirdness of purity transgressions and come to the conclusion that moral domains do not represent distinct mechanisms. In two studies (total N = 2,307), we test whether transgression weirdness accounts for disgust sensitivity’s stronger association with moral judgments of the purity as compared to other moral domains, but find little evidence for this claim. The relationship between disgust sensitivity and moral judgments of purity even remains when taking into account both (perceived) weirdness and (perceived) harmfulness of moral transgressions. These studies show that transgression weirdness and harmfulness cannot explain the disgust sensitivity–purity link, contradicting predictions following from popular anti-modularity accounts.

Does cognitive flexibility moderate the relationship between disgust sensitivity and contamination fear?

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S202-S202
Author(s):  
E. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
Clinical Population ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Contamination Fear ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The Relationship

High disgust sensitivity and poor cognitive flexibility have been independently identified as contributing factors in the aetiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder. This study looks at the relationship between contamination fear and disgust sensitivity in a non-clinical population. In particular, at whether two moderating factors, cognitive flexibility and emotional reappraisal, have a buffering influence. One hundred participants from an undergraduate population completed a battery of questionnaires which rated their disgust and level of contamination fear. They also completed a set-shifting task to assess cognitive flexibility and an emotion regulation questionnaire. The mean age of the sample was 21.4 years with 62% of the sample population being female. SPSS 16 was used to correlate the main variables using Pearson's correlation and moderated regression, using MODPROBE, was used for analysis. Results confirmed previous findings that high disgust sensitivity is significantly associated with contamination fear (P < 0.01). In addition to this, both cognitive flexibility and emotional reappraisal reduced the influence that disgust has on an individual's contamination fear. Cognitive flexibility and emotion reappraisal were not found to be significantly correlated to each other (P = 0.511), which suggest that these variables moderate the relationship between disgust and contamination fear independently of each other. Individuals with poor cognitive flexibility and/or poor emotional reappraisal were found to have high levels of contamination fear, which suggests that these two variables may attenuate the relationship between disgust and contamination fear. Future implications of these findings have been discussed although further research is needed to confirm these conclusions in a clinical population.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals The Role of Disgust in Homosexuality Judgments

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
C. Nega ◽  
L. Pateraki ◽  
N. Saranti ◽  
A. Pasia
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Neutral Conditions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

Background: There is a continuing debate on whether emotions underlie moral judgments. Recent studies have shown that emotions, and particularly disgust, play an important role in moral judgments. Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of induced disgust on implicit and explicit judgments of homosexuality and to examine the relationship between those judgments and disgust sensitivity. Method: Sixty-four college students were presented with a neutral or disgust inducing slideshow and a scenario describing homosexual or heterosexual couples French kissing in public. Implicit and explicit disapproval of public French kissing was measured along with disgust sensitivity. Results: The findings revealed that participants in the induced disgust condition showed greater implicit, but not explicit, disapproval of both homosexual and heterosexual public French kissing, compared to those in the neutral conditions. Homosexual public French kissing was implicitly judged more harshly than heterosexual public French kissing. With regard to disgust sensitivity, results revealed its contribution to implicit judgements. Conclusion: Present findings add to the existing literature by showing that disgust plays a role in the formation of implicit judgments of sexual behavior. Theoretical considerations accounting for the role of disgust in relation to the intentionality of moral actions are discussed.

The relationship between disgust sensitivity and behaviour: A virtual reality study on food disgust

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 103833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanine Ammann ◽  
Christina Hartmann ◽  
Vega Peterhans ◽  
Sandro Ropelato ◽  
Michael Siegrist
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
The Relationship

Disgust Sensitivity and Attitudes toward Organ Donation among African-American College Students

2001 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy C. Sherman ◽  
Robert J. Smith ◽  
Martin F. Sherman ◽  
Patti Rickert-Wilbur
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
African American ◽  
Organ Donation ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Behavioral Measure ◽  
African American College Students ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
African American Population ◽  
The Relationship

241 African-American college students (94 men and 147 women, mean age = 20.3 ± 3.4 yr.) completed the 1994 Disgust Scale of Haidt, McCauley, and Rozin and a modified form of Parisi-Rizzo's 1987 Attitudes Toward Organ Donation Scale (negative subscale only) as well as a behavioral measure of intention to donate organs after death. Analyses indicated that the higher the disgust sensitivity, the more negative the attitude toward organ donation and the less likely the student was to indicate intent to donate organs. It was further shown that negative attitudes toward organ donation mediated the relationship between disgust sensitivity and the behavioral intention measure. Results highlight the complexity of the issues surrounding organ donation within an African-American population and provide additional empirical evidence for the development of a theoretical model to explain the organ donation phenomenon.

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