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Anxiety and disgust: Evidence for a unidirectional relationship

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Pages 729-750 | Published online: 09 Sep 2010

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Adrianne A. Harris, Adrienne L. Romer, Eleanor K. Hanna, Lori A. Keeling, Kevin S. LaBar, Walter Sinnott‐Armstrong, Timothy J. Strauman, Henry Ryan Wagner, Marsha D. Marcus & Nancy L. Zucker. (2019) The central role of disgust in disorders of food avoidance. International Journal of Eating Disorders 52:5, pages 543-553.
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Gregory J Privitera, Quentin W King-Shepard, Kayla N Cuifolo & P Murali Doraiswamy. (2016) Differential food intake and food choice by depression and body mass index levels following a mood manipulation in a buffet-style setting. Journal of Health Psychology 24:2, pages 199-208.
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Ewa Siedlecka & Thomas F. Denson. (2018) Experimental Methods for Inducing Basic Emotions: A Qualitative Review. Emotion Review 11:1, pages 87-97.
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Thomas A. Fergus & Nancy E. Wheless. (2018) The attention training technique causally reduces self-focus following worry provocation and reduces cognitive anxiety among self-focused individuals. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 61, pages 66-71.
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Bunmi O. Olatunji, Thomas Armstrong & Lisa Elwood. (2017) Is Disgust Proneness Associated With Anxiety and Related Disorders? A Qualitative Review and Meta-Analysis of Group Comparison and Correlational Studies. Perspectives on Psychological Science 12:4, pages 613-648.
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Angela F. Nederlof, Peter Muris & Johannes E. Hovens. (2014) Anger, anxiety, and feelings of delusional threat as predictors of aggressive attitudes: An experimental mood induction study in a non-clinical sample. Personality and Individual Differences 57, pages 25-30.
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Peter Muris, Jorg Huijding, Birgit Mayer & Helen de Vries. (2012) Does ‘Yuck’ mean ‘Eek’? Fear responses in children after a disgust manipulation. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 43:2, pages 765-769.
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Frances Meeten & Graham C.L. Davey. (2012) Mood as Input and Perseverative Worrying Following the Induction of Discrete Negative Moods. Behavior Therapy 43:2, pages 393-406.
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Robin B. Jarrett, Abu Minhajuddin, Patricia D. Borman, Lauren Dunlap, Zindel V. Segal, Cindy L. Kidner, Edward S. Friedman & Michael E. Thase. (2012) Cognitive reactivity, dysfunctional attitudes, and depressive relapse and recurrence in cognitive therapy responders. Behaviour Research and Therapy 50:5, pages 280-286.
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Bunmi O. Olatunji, Bethany G. Ciesielski, Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor, Brian J. Wentworth & Megan A. Viar. (2012) Effects of Experienced Disgust on Habituation During Repeated Exposure to Threat-Relevant Stimuli in Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia. Behavior Therapy 43:1, pages 132-141.
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Graham C. L. Davey. (2011) Disgust: the disease-avoidance emotion and its dysfunctions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366:1583, pages 3453-3465.
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Ryan Yat-Ming Cheung & Terry Kit-Fong Au. (2011) Nursing Students’ Anxiety and Clinical Performance. Journal of Nursing Education 50:5, pages 286-289.
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Gerald Matthews, April Rose Panganiban & Eva Hudlicka. (2011) Anxiety and selective attention to threat in tactical decision-making. Personality and Individual Differences 50:7, pages 949-954.
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Sandrine Gil, Frédérique Teissèdre, Patrick Chambres & Sylvie Droit-Volet. (2011) The evaluation of emotional facial expressions in early postpartum depression mood: A difference between adult and baby faces?. Psychiatry Research 186:2-3, pages 281-286.
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Emily Leathers-Smith & Graham C. L. Davey. (2011) The Disgust Threat Interpretation Bias is Not Moderated by Anxiety & Disgust Sensitivity. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology 2:1, pages 63-76.
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Evelyn Smith & Elizabeth Rieger. (2009) An investigation of the effect of body dissatisfaction on selective attention toward negative shape and weight‐related information. International Journal of Eating Disorders 43:4, pages 358-364.
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Bunmi O. Olatunji, Josh Cisler, Dean McKay & Mary L. Phillips. (2010) Is disgust associated with psychopathology? Emerging research in the anxiety disorders. Psychiatry Research 175:1-2, pages 1-10.
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Birgit Mayer, Peter Muris, Karlien Busser & Jessy Bergamin. (2009) A disgust mood state causes a negative interpretation bias, but not in the specific domain of body-related concerns. Behaviour Research and Therapy 47:10, pages 876-881.
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Natalie Barazzone & Graham C.L. Davey. (2009) Anger potentiates the reporting of threatening interpretations: An experimental study. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 23:4, pages 489-495.
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Graham C. L. Davey & Amy Hurrell. (2009) Does Disgust Facilitate Anxiety Sensitivity? An Experimental Study. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy 2:1, pages 4-15.
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Bethany A. Teachman & Shannan B. Smith-Janik. (2009) Relationship between Disgust and Memory Biases in Spider Fear. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy 2:1, pages 16-36.
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Birgit Mayer, Peter Muris, Arjan E.R. Bos & Chantal Suijkerbuijk. (2008) Disgust sensitivity and eating disorder symptoms in a non-clinical population. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 39:4, pages 504-514.
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Graham C.L. Davey, Benie A. MacDonald & Lucy Brierley. (2008) The effect of disgust on anxiety ratings to fear-relevant, disgust-relevant and fear-irrelevant stimuli. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 22:8, pages 1347-1354.
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Peter Muris, Simone van der Heiden & Eric Rassin. (2008) Disgust sensitivity and psychopathological symptoms in non-clinical children. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 39:2, pages 133-146.
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Peter Muris, Birgit Mayer, Jorg Huijding & Tjeerd Konings. (2008) A dirty animal is a scary animal! Effects of disgust-related information on fear beliefs in children. Behaviour Research and Therapy 46:1, pages 137-144.
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Graham C.L. Davey, Sarah Bickerstaffe & Benie A. MacDonald. (2006) Experienced disgust causes a negative interpretation bias: A causal role for disgust in anxious psychopathology. Behaviour Research and Therapy 44:10, pages 1375-1384.
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