Forever yuck: Oculomotor avoidance of disgusting stimuli resists habituation.
Edwin S. Dalmaijer, Alexander Lee, Rachel Leiter, Zoe Brown, Thomas Armstrong
Abstract
= 93), we provided a gaze-contingent reward to ensure perceptual contact with the disgusting image. Participants looked almost exclusively at the disgusting image for 5 min but resumed baseline levels of oculomotor avoidance once the reward ceased. These findings underscore the challenge of reducing disgust. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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DisgustPsychologyHabituationGazePsycINFOPerceptionCognitive psychologySocial psychologyNeuroscienceMEDLINEAngerPolitical sciencePsychoanalysisLawPsychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentMedia Influence and HealthEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior