1969
DOI: 10.1037/h0027787
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Attitudes to body products among normal subjects.

Abstract: Attitudes of normal 5s toward body products were measured with the semantic differential. 5s of various ages, from different educational and socioeconomic backgrounds, were studied. Sex and race differences were also investigated. The results indicated that each group differentiated these body products significantly, and that the scaling of these products was consistent, and did not vary among the groups more than could have been expected by chance. The ordering of these body products and the absolute scale va… Show more

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“…Kubie (1937), whose orientation was strongly psychoanalytical, maintained that the body is a “dirt factory.” He contended that feces, urine, all body secretions, all crevices of the body, and everything inside the body are perceived as dirty. Hirt, Ross, Kurtz and Gleser (1969) extended the theoretical and clinical article of Kubie by having normal participants rate body products on the evaluative dimension of the Semantic Differential. Negative ratings were given to blackheads, pus, nose‐pickings, vomit, ear wax, dandruff, nail clippings, phlegm, and feces.…”
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“…Kubie (1937), whose orientation was strongly psychoanalytical, maintained that the body is a “dirt factory.” He contended that feces, urine, all body secretions, all crevices of the body, and everything inside the body are perceived as dirty. Hirt, Ross, Kurtz and Gleser (1969) extended the theoretical and clinical article of Kubie by having normal participants rate body products on the evaluative dimension of the Semantic Differential. Negative ratings were given to blackheads, pus, nose‐pickings, vomit, ear wax, dandruff, nail clippings, phlegm, and feces.…”
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confidence: 99%