SynthesisClinical psychology review2019
Cognitive mechanisms of disgust in the development and maintenance of psychopathology: A qualitative review and synthesis.
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- Dissecting disgust and fear in chimpanzees: From facilitation to disruption of cognitive processes.iScience · 2026Article
- Prioritizing the desirable over the disgusting self: self-disgust modulates perceptual processing of valenced self-representations.Cognitive processing · 2026Article
- Automated Facial Emotion Recognition System Detects Altered Emotional Processing During Craving Induction in Individuals with Substance Use Disorder.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Adaptation and validation into Spanish of the brief scale of mood regulation through music (B-MMR).BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The effects of encoding levels on the item and source memory of fearful and disgusting stimuli.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Self-Disgust, Body-Related Attentional Bias and Body Dissatisfaction: A Virtual Reality and Eye-Tracking Exploration.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Enhanced disgust generalization in obsessive-compulsive disorder is related to insula and putamen hyperactivity.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Initial expressed emotion during neuropsychological assessment: investigating motivational dimensions of approach and avoidance.Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology · 2024Article
- Eye-tracking measurement of attention bias to social threat among youth: A replication and extension study.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- Examination of perception of threat from emotion as mechanisms underlying the relationship between obsessive compulsive symptom dimensions and anxiety symptoms.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Eye-tracking analysis of attentional disengagement in phobic and non-phobic individuals.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Common neural correlates of disgust processing in childhood maltreatment and peer victimisation.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- Disgust as a basic, sexual, and moral emotion.Cognitive processing · 2024Review
- Disgust Processing and Potential Relationships with Behaviors in Autism.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- Visible skin disease symptoms of another person reduce automatic imitation of their hand movements.Psychological research · 2023Article
- The role of self-reported fear and disgust in the activation of behavioral harm avoidance related to medical settings.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- An Eye Tracking Study Examining the Role of Mating Strategies, Perceived Vulnerability to Disease, and Disgust in Attention to Pathogenic Cues.Adaptive human behavior and physiology · 2023Article
- Enhanced recognition of disgusted expressions occurs in spite of attentional avoidance at encoding.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Lessons learned developing and testing family-based interoceptive exposure for adolescents with low-weight eating disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
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Abstract
A growing body of research has implicated disgust in various psychopathologies, especially anxiety-related disorders. Although the observed role of disgust in many disorders is robust, the mechanisms that may explain this role are unclear. Cutting-edge research in cognitive science has the potential to elucidate such mechanisms and consequently improve our understanding of how disgust contributes to the etiology and maintenance of psychopathology. In this qualitative review, we systematically assess cognitive bias mechanisms that have been linked to disgust and its disorders. This review suggests that disgust-related biases may be observed in memory, interpretation, judgment of expectancies, and attention, as well as at implicit levels. Of these cognitive domains, the most robust bias appears to be observed at the level of attention. However, reliable moderators of attentional biases for disgust have not yet been identified, and this bias has not been systematically linked to other levels of analysis. Despite these limitations, the available research indicates that attentional avoidance rather than orienting or maintenance may be the most characteristic of disgust. Attentional avoidance of disgust may have important implications for etiological and treatment models of disorders characterized by excessive disgust reactions. The implications for advancing such models are discussed in the context of a combined cognitive bias hypothesis.
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