ArticleScientific reports2023
Longitudinal changes in disgust sensitivity during pregnancy and the early postpartum period, and the role of recent health problems.
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- Parents Develop Long-Term Disgust Habituation, but Only After Beginning to Wean Their Children.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Chronic inflammation in pregnant women with latent toxoplasmosis and explanation of discordant results of serological tests for toxoplasmosis.Folia parasitologica · 2025Article
- The impact of maternal disgust sensitivity from pregnancy until 3 years postpartum on the early development of disgust sensitivity in the child.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Perceived vulnerability to disease in pregnancy and parenthood and its impact on newborn health.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Association between Disgust Sensitivity during Pregnancy and Endogenous Steroids: A Longitudinal Study.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Disgust as a primary emotional system and its clinical relevance.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Reduced Readiness for Social Interaction as a Strategy for Pathogen Avoidance by Women in Various Stages of Pregnancy and Postpartum.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Disgust is an essential part of the behavioral immune system, protecting the individual from infection. According to the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis (CPH), disgust sensitivity increases in times of immunosuppression, potentially including pregnancy. We aimed to replicate a previous study observing longitudinal changes in disgust sensitivity in pregnant women. Additionally, for the first time, we explored how recent health problems influence these changes. To do this, we obtained disgust sensitivity measures from 94 women in each trimester and in early postpartum. In contrast to the original study, where disgust sensitivity was highest in the first trimester, we found that overall and animal reminder disgust increased across pregnancy and after birth. In line with the CPH, women who were recently sick in the first trimester had elevated disgust sensitivity at that time. Although disgust sensitivity was significantly higher in the second trimester and postpartum period compared to the first trimester in mothers pregnant with a male fetus, the overall results regarding the effect of fetus sex on disgust sensitivity were mixed. It seems that changing levels of disgust sensitivity during pregnancy and postpartum result from a suite of physiological and psychological changes that occur during this sensitive period of a woman's life.
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