Articles tagged with Disgust
A new study reveals that the hippocampus represents emotion concepts in a structured hierarchy of pleasantness and bodily reaction, while the ventromedial prefrontal cortex tracks relationships between these nodes. This map-like representation may help in the treatment of mental illnesses, such as depression and anxiety.
A study published by the University of Leipzig found that adults with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) who have a higher body weight are at risk of malnutrition and related health issues. The research also highlighted the importance of accurate diagnosis and tailored treatment strategies for this overlooked population.
University of Missouri researchers create digital sentiment map using AI to analyze public Instagram posts, linking emotional tone to real-life features. The tool aims to improve city services, identify areas of concern, and inform emergency response decisions.
Researchers developed a new therapy that teaches patients to tolerate stomach and body discomfort, improving functional brain deficits linked to visceral disgust. The study showed improved outcomes for adolescents with low-weight eating disorders compared to traditional family-based treatment.
Researchers compared vowels in pain, disgust, and joy interjections to nonlinguistic vocalizations across 131 languages. They found consistent vowel signatures for pain and disgust, but not for joyful emotions.
Researchers at Lehigh University found that reading a personal history of an opposing party member can significantly reduce animosity towards members of the opposing party. The study tested interventions with both Democrats and Republicans, finding that historicist narratives can lead to increased compassion and reduced moral emotions.
Research reveals UK immigration system's reliance on anger, disgust, suspicion, and fear to cast migrants as 'threatening, polluting and irrelevant', leading to deportability and disposability. The system employs emotional governance to disenfranchise migrants, fostering racial categorization and domination.
Internet search trends indicate a growing prevalence of biophobias worldwide, particularly in countries with large urban populations. Researchers analyzed search interest for various biophobia types and found an association between urban living and increased fear of certain organisms.
A recent study published in Journal of Animal Ecology has identified disease avoidance strategies in various animal species, including humans. The research provides insights into how emotions like disgust help protect against diseases and has implications for human health and conservation efforts.
A new study by University of Essex researcher Constantina Maltezou-Papastylianou found that older adults are less accurate than younger adults in detecting emotions from speech. This decline is associated with natural changes in the brain as we age, affecting understanding and interpretation of emotional cues.
A new study analyzing YouTube comments found that fans of a celebrity will often continue to support them despite immoral acts. The study used language-processing algorithms to analyze comments on Logan Paul's videos before and after a scandalous incident in which he shared a video of a dead body.
A new map of brain stem circuits controlling eating behavior could lead to better obesity treatments. The atlas, built from recent discoveries in mice and human studies, identifies two food intake-suppressing circuits in the brain stem, one causing nausea and another not.
Researchers found that smells can enhance or hinder our ability to recognize emotions in others' faces. The study used a spectrum of emotions, from extreme joy to neutral, and measured participants' response times.
Researchers from RIKEN created Nikola, an android child that can convey six basic emotions through facial expressions. The study tested the quality of these expressions and found that humans can recognize them with varying accuracy.
Researchers found a significant increase in disgust sensitivity among participants concerned about contracting COVID-19, affecting not only disease-related scenarios but also unrelated situations. The 'calibration hypothesis' suggests that disgust sensitivity is a fluid measure changing with time and circumstance.
A study by SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities found that people become more sensitive to feelings of disgust when they perceive their lives as being in danger. As a result, they tend to avoid foreigners, which is linked to an evolutionary response known as the behavioral immune system.
A new study published in Appetite found that nearly 7% of meat eaters experience a strong disgust response to images of meat dishes, which could be leveraged to encourage reduced meat consumption. Researchers suggest harnessing this 'yuk factor' may be more effective than relying on willpower.
Kessler explores the psychological impact of food on art, revealing how paintings like Vollon's 'Mound of Butter' and Manet's 'Fish (Still Life)' evoke anxiety and discomfort. Her research sheds new light on the cultural significance of food in 19th-century France.
A recent study analyzed over 17,000 public comments on orca conservation in Washington state, revealing the most common emotional sentiments were trust, anticipation, and fear. The findings provide valuable insights for conservation managers to understand why people support or reject management actions.
Among Ecuador's Shuar people, market integration is linked to higher levels of disgust sensitivity and lower infection rates. Disgust helps regulate exposure to pathogens and varies across households and communities.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge found that domperidone, an anti-nausea medication, can significantly reduce how much volunteers look away from disgusting images. The study suggests that stabilizing the stomach's electrical signals may be a key cause of disgust avoidance.
A study by researchers at the University of Geneva suggests that unhealthy behaviors trigger brain responses similar to those prompted by bad smells. Disgust is identified as a biomarker in the brain for this phenomenon, which has implications for our understanding of moral judgments and survival reflexes.
A study by Dr Jared Piazza of Lancaster University found that butchers and deli workers become desensitized to handling meat within two years, leading to reduced feelings of disgust and empathy. They justify eating meat on grounds such as necessity for health or natural digestion.
Researchers are investigating how individual factors influence engagement in preventative health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The yearlong study assesses preventative behaviors, social attitudes, and individual differences to inform future pandemics or viral threats.
Researchers tested whether contaminating a fake rubber hand could help people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) overcome their contamination fears. The 'rubber hand illusion' technique showed promise in reducing disgust and anxiety levels, paving the way for new treatment options.
A recent University of Michigan study reveals that people tend to prioritize protecting close relationships over reporting immoral acts, even in cases of theft and sexual harassment. Researchers found that this bias can be attenuated by adopting a psychologically distanced perspective.
Conceptual knowledge affects emotion perception and brain's face representation, with neural similarity predicted by individual conceptual similarities. The right fusiform gyrus plays a role in this process.
The study found that the expression of anger in popular music increased gradually over seven decades, peaking in 2015. The expression of sadness, disgust, and fear also increased over time, with joy becoming a milder tone in recent years.
Researchers identified 17 unique facial expressions that convey happiness across cultures, while finding only 8 universal expressions for other emotions like fear and surprise. The study used a dataset of over 7.2 million images from 31 countries to confirm the findings.
A study at New York University found that people's facial emotion recognition varies based on their conceptual understanding of emotions. When individuals believe certain emotions are more similar, the faces of those emotions are perceived as more similar, suggesting a role for pre-conceived beliefs in emotional perception.
A study by the University of Helsinki found that science fiction enthusiasts are more likely to approve of mind upload technology, with traditional religiousness and disgust sensitivity to sexual matters linked to negative reactions. The research also explored moral psychology perspectives on the technology.
Researchers at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine identified six common categories of disgust related to infectious diseases, including infected wounds and poor hygiene. These findings could help target public health messaging and develop new methods to keep environments healthy.
Researchers at Kyoto University found that bonobos show a strong aversion to food contaminated with feces or soil, indicating an adaptive system of disgust. This instinctual response helps protect against parasites and pathogens in the environment.
Research at the University of Kent found that 57% of respondents had watched ISIS videos, with 93% reporting a negative attitude towards the group. The study also revealed a 'morbid buzz' surrounding explicit content, making it compelling viewing for many.
A Norwegian University of Science and Technology study found that women who initiate sex are less likely to regret it due to their ability to make autonomous decisions. The researchers also discovered that quality matters, with women feeling less regret if the partner is skilled and they feel sexually satisfied.
Researchers found a strong connection between supporting a society led by an authoritarian leader and being sensitive to body odours. The study suggests that disgust plays a role in shaping ideological attitudes, with people who are more disgusted being more likely to vote for authoritarian candidates.
A new study published in PeerJ found that individuals with trypophobia exhibit a physiological response more associated with disgust than fear. The researchers used eye-tracking technology to measure pupil size and found that images of clusters of holes elicited greater constriction of the pupils, a response linked to feelings of disgust.
Researchers found that chimpanzees delay eating food placed on replica feces, recoil from soft and moist substrates, and hesitate after touching them. These reactions suggest that chimpanzees have an adaptive system of disgust, similar to humans, which helps protect them from pathogens and parasites.
Researchers found 27 distinct dimensions of emotion that account for hundreds of people's reported feelings in response to video clips. The study challenges the notion that emotions are finite clusters and instead reveals smooth gradients between emotions.
Research suggests including graphic content in serious stories can increase moral sensitivity and desire for intervention, contradicting prevailing wisdom on sensationalism. Editors should consider showing graphic video if the story is important and accurate representation of severe events is necessary.
Researchers found that individuals with trypophobia experience intense disgust and nausea when viewing cluster images, even for disease-irrelevant stimuli. The study suggests a connection between trypophobia and an evolutionary history of infectious disease and parasitism.
A recent study by Cornell University's Adam Anderson found that the eyes are crucial for emotional communication, with specific features like eye openness and eyebrow distance revealing mental states.
A recent study published in Scientific Reports found that individuals sensitive to sexual disgust are more likely to make duty-based moral judgments, similar to those who follow Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy. This is surprising, as previous research has shown no connection between moral disgust sensitivity and moral preferences.
New research from the University of Kent suggests that disgust is a way of communicating moral concerns rather than self-interested motivation. The study found that people who express disgust are perceived as being motivated by impartial, moral concerns, whereas those who express anger are seen as more self-interested.
New study published in Psychological Science suggests that a person's character is more important than their actions in determining our sense of moral disgust. Researchers found that participants rated individuals with worse characters as more disgusting, regardless of the action taken.
A study by the University of Arizona found that humor in ads can have both positive and negative effects on brand attitudes. Researchers explored the concept of
Research shows that policies targeting the homeless, such as banning lying down in public, have significant support from the public. However, the same people also want government to spend a lot on helping the homeless, indicating a disconnect between attitudes and policy goals. Disgust plays a key role in this disconnect, with many peo...
Research from University of Washington suggests that despite high levels of reported acceptance, bias against mixed-race couples persists in the US. The study found a strong negative correlation between bias and disgust, as well as activation in the insula brain region when viewing images of interracial couples.
A study by SF State researchers found that individuals experiencing anger, contempt and disgust are more likely to act aggressively towards those they disagree with. The study suggests that identifying the specific emotional mix that leads to aggression can help prevent hostile behavior.
A recent study found that feelings of disgust can increase behaviors like lying and cheating, while cleanliness can help people return to ethical behavior. The researchers used three randomized experiments to test the impact of emotions on decision-making.
Researchers found that people exposed to core disgusts in movies show higher attention levels and remember content better, even with negative reactions. The study suggests that disgusting content can be a effective device for content creators.
A Cornell University neuroscientist's study finds that human facial expressions arose from universal, adaptive reactions to environmental stimuli. The findings suggest that emotional responses influence vision at the earliest moments of visual encoding, leading to contrasting eye movements that filter our reality.
Two new studies found that anger and disgust can produce moral outrage in jurors, influencing their emotions and potentially leading to guilty verdicts. The research highlights the importance of judges weighing the admissibility of emotionally charged evidence in courts of law.
Studies show that when faced with a threat, our bodies respond with fight-or-flight responses and engage perceptual biases to misperceive objects as being closer. However, this effect is absent in cases of disgust. These findings support the threat-signal hypothesis, suggesting that perception can be biased to promote functional action.
Research suggests that feeling disgust motivates people to prioritize cleanliness and purity, leading them to better see subtle deviations from whiteness. Disgust sensitivity is linked to improved performance in detecting impurities on the light end of the visual spectrum.
A new study by Fabrizio Di Muro and Theodore J. Noseworthy found that consumers tend to spend more on worn bills due to feelings of disgust, but are more likely to hold onto crisp currency for social reasons. The researchers suggest that money's physical appearance can influence spending behavior, making it a vehicle for social utility.
Researchers found that women's disgust responses are weaker when they are sexually aroused. The study, published in PLOS ONE, used a combination of peer review and post-publication rating and commenting to maximize the impact of every report it publishes. All works published in PLOS ONE are Open Access.
Researchers found that Yucatec Maya speakers and German speakers performed similarly when identifying mixed-emotion faces. The study suggests that emotions have evolved as basic human mechanisms, unaffected by language. This discovery challenges the idea that language plays a crucial role in understanding emotions.
A recent study found that conservatives exhibited stronger physiological reactions to disgusting images, particularly those related to gay marriage. The research suggests that people's political orientations are reflected in their biology, with certain attitudes becoming ingrained in the body.
A study by the University of Montreal found that Caucasians and Asians recognize faces in distinct ways, with Caucasians analyzing facial features like eyes and mouth, while Asians consider the entire face. This difference affects their ability to identify emotions, particularly negative ones.