ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2020
Disgust propensity has a causal link to the stigmatization of people with cancer.
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- "It's All My Fault": A Qualitative Case Study of Self-Disgust in Women with Gynecological Malignancies.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
- Depression and Quality of Life in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Impact of Self-Disgust.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Article
- Current status and associated factors of social avoidance in postoperative breast cancer patients: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- "As if we are branded with the mark of Cain": stigma, guilt, and shame experienced by COVID-19 survivors in Israel - a qualitative study.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- "Bed bugs live in dirty places"-How Using Live Animals in Teaching Contributes to Reducing Stigma, Disgust, Psychological Stigma, and Misinformation in Students.CBE life sciences education · 2022Article
- Cancer-related stigma in the USA and Israeli mass media: an exploratory study of structural stigma.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2022Article
- "Touch Me If You Can!": Individual Differences in Disease Avoidance and Social Touch.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior · 2021Article
- Impact of stigma and stigma-focused interventions on screening and treatment outcomes in cancer patients.Ecancermedicalscience · 2021Review
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Abstract
Disgust-driven stigma may be motivated by an assumption that a stigmatized target presents a disease threat, even in the absence of objective proof. Accordingly, even non-contagious diseases, such as cancer, can become stigmatized by eliciting disgust. This study had two parts: a survey (n = 272), assessing the association between disgust traits and cancer stigma; and an experiment, in which participants were exposed to a cancer surgery (n = 73) or neutral video (n = 68), in order to test a causal mechanism for the abovementioned association. Having a higher proneness to disgust was associated with an increased tendency to stigmatize people with cancer. Further, a significant causal pathway was observed between disgust propensity and awkwardness- and avoidance-based cancer stigma via elevated disgust following cancer surgery exposure. In contrast, those exposed to cancer surgery not experiencing elevated disgust reported less stigma than controls. Exposure-based interventions, which do not elicit disgust, may be profitable in reducing cancer stigma.
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