Abstract
Compred to other emotions, there has been a lack of research on disgust as it relates to psychopathology. Of the extant research, disgust has been shown to be implicated in various anxiety disorders and consist of three domains: core, animal-reminder, and contamination disgust. There is evidence that these domains are correlated with disgust-relevant anxiety disorders, and this sensitivity to specific disgust domains have different topographical presentations. This study aims to determine if priming participants with different domain-specific videos (core, animal-reminder, neutral) and then completing a disgust-related behavioral avoidance task that is specific to the core domain, will lead to greater behavioral avoidance to the disgust-related task. The results indicate that those who were exposed to a Domain-Congruent video exhibited greater avoidance and self-reported disgust than those who were exposed to the Domain-Incongruent and Neutral videos. These findings suggest it may be appropriate to add disgust to the exposure paradigm.
Advisor
Barry J. Ries
Committee Member
Andrea Lassiter
Committee Member
Steven P. Gilbert
Date of Degree
2013
Language
english
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Psychology
Recommended Citation
Schumann, M. (2013). Differences between core and animal reminder disgust elicitation on a core disgust avoidance task--A replication with modifications. [Master’s thesis, Minnesota State University, Mankato]. Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works for Minnesota State University, Mankato. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/etds/38/
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