ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Disgust Sensitivity.
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- Pandemic elevates sensitivity to moral disgust but not pathogen disgust.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Disgust sensitivity in early pregnancy as a response to high pathogen risk.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The psychometric properties and gender invariance of the Italian version of the Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Questionnaire (I-PVDQ) during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC psychology · 2022Article
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- Deontological Guilt and Disgust Sensitivity Modulate Moral Behaviour.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2021Article
- Pandemic Leadership: Sex Differences and Their Evolutionary-Developmental Origins.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Disgust Sensitivity Among Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Do Islanders Have a More Reactive Behavioral Immune System? Social Cognitions and Preferred Interpersonal Distances During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Trust in Science, Perceived Vulnerability to Disease, and Adherence to Pharmacological and Non-pharmacological COVID-19 Recommendations.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
There have been few tests of whether exposure to naturalistic or experimental disease-threat inductions alter disgust sensitivity, although it has been hypothesized that this should occur as part of disgust's disease avoidance function. In the current study, we asked Macquarie university students to complete measures of disgust sensitivity, perceived vulnerability to disease (PVD), hand hygiene behavior and impulsivity, during Australia's Covid-19 pandemic self-quarantine (lockdown) period, in March/April 2020. These data were then compared to earlier Macquarie university, and other local, and overseas student cohorts, to determine if disgust sensitivity and the other measures, were different in the lockdown sample. The most consistent finding in the lockdown sample was of higher core disgust sensitivity (Cohen's
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