Disgust memory enhancement extends to more accurate memory but not more false memories
Memory & Cognition,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Янв. 20, 2025
Abstract
People
show
enhanced
memory
recall
for
disgust
over
fear,
despite
both
being
highly
negative
and
arousing
emotions.
But
does
disgust’s
‘stickiness’
in
result
more
false
memories
versus
fear?
Existing
research
finds
low
false-memory
rates
perhaps
from
using
image
lures
depicting
content
unrelated
to
target
images.
Therefore,
we
presented
111
participants
with
disgust,
(and
neutral)
images
during
an
attention-monitoring
task.
After
24–48
hours,
completed
a
recognition
test,
where
they
viewed
‘old’
(previously
seen)
‘new’
(both
related
lures)
indicated
whether
each
was
or
‘new’.
Relative
experienced
fewer
of
lures,
but
similar
lures.
Furthermore,
participants’
attention
captured
by
than
fear
images,
correct
sensitivity
were
relative
fear.
Our
findings
suggest
enhancement
extends
accurate
memory,
which
has
clinical
implications.
Язык: Английский
The differential fading of disgust and fear reactions to a personal trauma in a non-clinical population
Memory,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 13
Опубликована: Янв. 27, 2025
ABSTRACTPersistent
negative
emotions
are
a
key
post-traumatic
stress
(PTS)
symptom.
Disgust
occurs
during/following
traumatic
events
and
predicts
PTS
symptoms,
but
is
overlooked
relative
to
other
like
fear.
Here,
we
investigate
how
trauma-related
disgust
fades-or
persists-in
memory
(i.e.,
person's
recollection
of
they
felt
during
event
vs.
their
current
feelings),
over
time,
In
cross-sectional
(Study
1;
N
=
471)
longitudinal
2;
160)
study,
participants
rated
fear
reactions
recent
stressful/traumatic
event,
at
the
time
occurred
(peritraumatic;
"then")
present
(posttraumatic;
"now").
Study
2
provided
additional
"now"
emotion
ratings
3
months
later.
Cross-sectional
comparisons
showed
that
whilst
participants'
were
lower
in
intensity
"then",
faded
greater
degree
than
disgust.
Time
since
symptom
severity
not
related
disgust's
persistence.
contrast,
similarly
persisted
longitudinally.
We
conclude
persist
persists
more
Understanding
reduce
feelings
following
trauma
clinically
important,
resistant
PTSD
treatments
Язык: Английский
Rethinking Sexual Aversion: Disgust Mechanisms and Clinical Pathways
Current Sexual Health Reports,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
17(1)
Опубликована: Апрель 11, 2025
Язык: Английский
State of the Science: Disgust and the Anxiety Disorders
Behavior Therapy,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
55(6), С. 1144 - 1157
Опубликована: Фев. 29, 2024
Язык: Английский
Conceptual‐level disgust conditioning in contamination‐based obsessive‐compulsive disorder
Psychophysiology,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
61(10)
Опубликована: Июнь 26, 2024
Pavlovian
fear
conditioning
and
extinction
represent
learning
mechanisms
underlying
exposure-based
interventions.
While
increasing
evidence
indicates
a
pivotal
role
of
disgust
in
the
development
contamination-based
obsessive-compulsive
disorder
(C-OCD),
dysregulations
conditioned
acquisition
maintenance,
particular
driven
by
higher-order
conceptual
processes,
have
not
been
examined.
Here,
we
address
this
gap
exposing
individuals
with
high
(HCC,
n
=
41)
or
low
(LCC,
contamination
concern
to
conceptual-level
paradigm.
Conditioned
stimuli
(CS+)
were
images
from
one
category
partially
reinforced
unconditioned
disgust-eliciting
(US),
while
another
served
as
non-reinforced
(CS-).
Skin
conductance
responses
(SCRs),
US
expectancy
CS
valence
ratings
primary
outcomes
quantify
responses.
Relative
LCC,
HCC
exhibited
increased
CS+
experience,
but
comparable
SCR
levels
following
acquisition.
Despite
decrease
phase
phase,
both
groups
did
fully
extinguish
learned
disgust.
Importantly,
resilience
acquired
was
more
pronounced
individuals.
Together,
our
findings
suggest
that
self-reported
exhibit
resistance
extinction.
The
provide
preliminary
on
how
dysregulated
mechanism
across
semantically
related
concepts
may
contribute
C-OCD.
Язык: Английский
Out with the bad, in with the good: A review on augmented extinction learning in humans
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
215, С. 107994 - 107994
Опубликована: Окт. 18, 2024
Язык: Английский
Potential for Harm in the Treatment of Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Pitfalls and Best Practices
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Окт. 23, 2024
Язык: Английский
Italian validation of the body odor disgust scale
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
18
Опубликована: Июнь 21, 2024
Disgust
sensitivity
to
body
odors
plays
a
role
in
set
of
psychological
mechanisms
supposedly
evolved
avoid
pathogens.
To
assess
individual
differences
odor
disgust,
we
previously
developed
the
disgust
scale
(BODS)
and
validated
it
English.
The
BODS
presents
six
scenarios
where
could
be
evoked
by
smells
coming
from
an
internal
source
external
source.
present
study
aimed
validate
Italian
population
find
further
evidence
for
its
structural,
construct,
criterion
validity.
Язык: Английский
Disgust Imagery in Contamination-Related Symptoms in a non-Clinical Sample
Imagination Cognition and Personality,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
44(2), С. 142 - 167
Опубликована: Сен. 2, 2024
Disgust
is
one
of
the
emotions
underlying
Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder,
particularly
washing
rituals.
This
pilot
study
explored
role
disgust
imagery
and
self-compassion
above
beyond
established
predictors
[disgust
propensity
(DP)
obsessive
beliefs]
in
predicting
symptoms
cross-sectionally.
Non-clinical
university
students
(
n
=
197)
completed
online
self-report
questionnaires
on
(newly
constructed
for
this
study),
obsessive-compulsive
symptoms,
DP,
beliefs
self-compassion.
The
majority
sample
180)
reported
imagery.
new
Imagery
Scale
demonstrated
promising
psychometric
properties.
preliminary
finding
suggested
that
severity
addition
to
misappraisals
experience
may
be
related
but
was
non-significant.
cultural,
research
clinical
implications
are
discussed.
use
a
non-clinical
student
cross-sectional
analyses
precluded
causal
claims
generalization
findings
samples.
Язык: Английский
Treating anxiety comorbidity: lessons from exposure generalization studies
Behavioural Brain Research,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
481, С. 115409 - 115409
Опубликована: Дек. 27, 2024
Comorbidity
is
a
characteristic
hallmark
of
anxiety
disorders.
Presence
comorbid
and
depression
challenging
to
the
diagnosis
treatment.
Conventional
transdiagnostic
treatment
options
for
disorders
strongly
depend
on
use
exposure.
Recent
compelling
evidence
suggests
that
beneficial
effects
exposure
therapy
are
transferable
across
different
fear-
provoking
situations
might
even
affect
depressive
symptomatology.
We
provide
an
overview
findings
existing
studies
generalization
untreated
stimuli
depression.
Potential
mechanisms
which
contribute
effects,
such
as
extinction
generalization,
mastery-related
increases
in
self-efficacy
underlying
neural
adaptations
presented
discussed.
Understanding
promoting
related
efficacy
can
expedite
enhance
development
more
effective
approaches
Язык: Английский