Emotional responses to disfigured faces and Disgust Sensitivity: An eye-tracking study

Stone, Anna; Potton, Anita

doi:10.1177/1359105317692856

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“…Physical atypicality is also a significant predictor of disgust reactions. For example, people with higher levels of proneness to disgust tend to report greater negative reactions and visual attention to photos of disfigured faces (Shanmugarajah et al, 2012;Stone & Potton, 2018). In the present study, we consider the role of disgust in the context of another salient source of bodily change: that induced by limb amputation.…”

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Prosthesis use is associated with reduced physical self-disgust in limb amputees

et al. 2018

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Self-disgust is an emotion schema negatively affecting people's body image and is triggered by bodily imperfections and deviations from the "normal" body envelope. In this study, we explore the idea that "normalising" the body in those with limb amputations via the prosthesis would be linked to reduced self-directed disgust. An international clinical community sample (N = 83) with mostly lower limb amputations completed measures about their demographics, prosthesis, adjustment, body image disturbance, psychological distress, and self-directed disgust in a survey design. Consistent with the "normalising" hypothesis, correlation and bootstrapped regression models revealed, first, that frequency of prosthesis use was significantly and negatively associated with physical self-disgust. Second, prosthesis use significantly mediated the exogenous effect of time since amputation on physical self-disgust. These results emphasise the psychological value of the prosthesis beyond its functional use, and stress its importance in normalising the body envelope in those with limb amputations, which may in turn promote psychological well-being.

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Prosthesis use is associated with reduced physical self-disgust in limb amputees

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“…To mitigate the threat caused by various diseases, people have evolved the behavior immune system (BIS) (Schaller and Park, 2011 ; Taylor, 2019 ). The activation of the BIS has implications for the affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses of people at individual and group levels, such as devoting more visual attention to cues related to diseases (Ackerman et al, 2009 ; Stone and Potton, 2019 ), increasing intentions to use condoms in sexual attitudes (Tybur et al, 2011 ), producing more prejudices against out-groups (Kusche and Barker, 2019 ), and adopting more socially conservative values (Tybur et al, 2016 ).…”

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Coronavirus Disease 2019–Related Stigma in China: A Descriptive Study

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tremendously impacts the physical and mental health of humans worldwide. Consequently, studies on COVID-19 remain extensive. However, most of them were mainly focused on the pathological mechanisms and treatment methods from medical perspectives. Various reports have indicated that COVID-19 is closely related to stigma and discrimination, but little statistical information has been integrated quantitatively to describe the situation in China. Thus, this study investigated the COVID-19-related stigma of individuals. We collected the online survey data from 1,920 Chinese participants from October to December 2020. Findings showed that 306 (15.94%), 285 (14.84%), 265 (13.80%), and 100 (5.21%) participants endorsed stigma toward individuals in high-risk areas, recovered patients with COVID-19, families of recovered patients with COVID-19, and frontline healthcare providers, respectively. To understand the possible factors that could impact the COVID-19-related stigma, knowledge about COVID-19 was investigated. Generally, knowledge about COVID-19 was negatively associated with COVID-19-related stigma in general, while no significant relationship existed between the knowledge about COVID-19 and the COVID-19-related stigma in the groups who had held COVID-19-related stigma. Ultimately, individuals showed COVID-19-related stigma toward recovered patients and their families, individuals in high-risk areas, and frontline healthcare providers to some extent. The results of this study can provide reference to nations, governments, and organizations in addressing the stigma issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…If sexual disgust and sexual desire truly exist on a continuum, then changes in cues associated with disgust activation in a partner (e.g., sores or lesions) may impact the perceived attractiveness and reported rates of sexual desire towards the partner. Extant research has not directly examined this possibility, but disfigured faces have been shown to elicit disgust (e.g., Stone & Potton, 2019 ). Future researchers may consider experimentally manipulating the disgust cues of potential mates and subsequently observing how these manipulations impact the perceived attractiveness and desirability of targets in short and long-term mating contexts.…”

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Mate Availability and Sexual Disgust

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Durkee

Sedlacek

et al. 2021

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

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Objective One of the factors that sexual disgust should be calibrated to is the size of the mating pool. This study tested this hypothesis by examining whether perceptions of mate availability explain variance in levels of sexual disgust towards potential mates. Methods Participants ( N = 853; 373 women) rated how sexually disgusting they found 60 potential mates that have previously been rated on attractiveness by a separate group of raters. We also measured participants’ perceptions of mate availability in their local environment, self-perceived attractiveness and mate value, and relevant control variables. Results Multilevel models revealed a negative association between sexual disgust towards potential mates and perceived mate availability—the opposite of what we predicted. We found support for our prediction that women had higher levels of sexual disgust than men, but only after addressing the confounding sex difference in target attractiveness. We also found the predicted negative association between target attractiveness and sexual disgust. Finally, as predicted, sexual disgust levels were more strongly related to potential mates’ attractiveness in individuals who perceived there to be many available mates in their local environment. Conclusions These findings generally bolster functional accounts of sexual disgust while highlighting the need for more evidence to ascertain the role of mate availability in the calibration of sexual disgust. Specifically, future research should examine the extent to which disgust levels may truncate mental representations of the mating pool instead of being calibrated by them.

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Emotional responses to disfigured faces and Disgust Sensitivity: An eye-tracking study

Cited by 24 publications

References 29 publications

Prosthesis use is associated with reduced physical self-disgust in limb amputees

Prosthesis use is associated with reduced physical self-disgust in limb amputees

Coronavirus Disease 2019–Related Stigma in China: A Descriptive Study

Mate Availability and Sexual Disgust

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