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Disgust Sensitivity (disgust + sensitivity)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Psychology	40%

Selected Abstracts

Disgust sensitivity predicts the insula and pallidal response to pictures of disgusting foods

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, Issue 11 2007
Andrew J. Calder
Abstract The anterior insula has been implicated in coding disgust from facial, pictorial and olfactory cues, and in the experience of this emotion. Personality research has shown considerable variation in individuals' trait propensity to experience disgust (,disgust sensitivity'). Our study explored the neural expression of this trait, and demonstrates that individual variation in disgust sensitivity is significantly correlated with participants' ventroanterior insular response to viewing pictures of disgusting, but not appetizing or bland, foods. Similar correlations were also seen in the pallidum and orofacial regions of motor and somatosensory cortices. Our results also accord with comparative research showing an anterior to posterior gradient in the rat pallidum reflecting increased ,liking' of foods [Smith, K. S. and Berridge, K. C. (2005) J. Neurosci., 25, 849,8637]. [source]

Moral Emotions and Social Activism: The Case of Animal Rights

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, Issue 3 2009
Harold A. Herzog
Why do some people and not others become involved in social movements? We examined the relationships between a moral emotion,disgust,and animal activism, attitudes toward animal welfare, and consumption of meat. Participants were recruited through two social networking websites and included animal activists, promoters of animal use, and participants not involved in animal-related causes. They took an online survey which included measures of sensitivity to visceral disgust, attitudes toward animal welfare, and frequency of meat eating. Animal activists were more sensitive to visceral disgust than were promoters of animal use or nonaligned participants. Disgust sensitivity was positively correlated with attitudes toward animal welfare but not with meat consumption. The relationship between animal activism and vegetarianism was complex; nearly half of animal activists ate meat, and half of the vegetarians did not consider themselves to be animal activists. We argue that conflicts over the moral status of animals reflect fundamental differences in moral intuitions. [source]

Disgust sensitivity predicts the insula and pallidal response to pictures of disgusting foods

Disgust and eating disorder symptomatology in a non-clinical population: The role of trait anxiety and anxiety sensitivity

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THEORY & PRACTICE), Issue 4 2009
Graham C. L. Davey
Abstract The present paper reports the results of a study investigating the relationship between a domains-independent measure of disgust (the Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale-Revised) and measures of eating disorder symptomatology in a non-clinical population. Significant correlations between disgust sensitivity and disgust propensity and selected eating disorder symptomatology measures suggested that disgust is significantly correlated with measures of eating disorder symptomatology and is appraised more negatively. However, both measures of disgust propensity and sensitivity failed to predict any significant residual variance in scores on eating symptomatology measures when either trait anxiety or anxiety sensitivity was controlled for. This suggests that while the experience of disgust may be heightened in individuals with eating disorders, it may be linked to other relevant emotions such as anxiety and anxiety sensitivity rather than being an independent risk factor for symptoms.,Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Key Practitioner Message: The experience of disgust may be heightened in individuals with eating disorder symptomatology. Disgust levels may not be an independent predictor of eating disorder symptoms. In those with eating disorder symotomatology disgust may be linked to other emotions such as anxiety and anxiety sensitivity. [source]