Background Infectious diseases are the most common and cost-intensive health
complications associated with drug addiction. There is wide belief that drug-dependent …

Both avoidance of individuals with cues of infectious illnesses and stigmatization of other
types of individual (eg, obese individuals) are hypothesized to reflect infectious disease …

The emotion of disgust plays a key role in the behavioral immune system, a set of disease-
avoidance processes constituting a frontline defense against pathogenic threats. In the …

Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) tend to report higher levels of disgust,
but not much is known about factors that might underlie this relationship. The present study …

We examined the relationships between sensitivity to three kinds of disgust (core, animal-
reminder, and contamination) and personality traits, behavioral avoidance, physiological …

Perceptions of interpersonal similarity are accompanied by attraction and bonding, often
leading to physical contact. Given that physical proximity to social beings increases the odds …

Disgust is important to mental contamination, a contamination fear that arises in the absence
of physical contact with a perceived contaminant. Researchers have distinguished between …

Both disgust and contamination sensitivity likely evolved to protect us from infectious
disease. Paradoxically, disgust may be reduced by frequent exposure to disgust-inducing …

The present study utilizes multiple methods to examine the relationship between disgust and
contamination-related obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms in an analogue …

Sexual arousal is known to increase risky behaviors, such as having unprotected sex. This
may in part relate to the emotion of disgust, which normally serves a disease avoidant …