Abstract
This chapter addresses the "laws" that guide individuals' disgust responding and discusses how insight in these laws may contribute to our understanding of how disgust might contribute to the persistence of fearful preoccupations. It explains how disgust and fear may be related and why disgust-based concerns may sometimes give rise to extreme fear. The chapter highlights that disgust may not only be elicited by external but also by internal stimuli such as particular images or memories, and addresses how such "mental disgust" may relate to clinical anxiety. It describes instruments and measures that can be used to assess both trait and state disgust responding. The chapter evaluates explicit and implicit measures of state disgust that have (also) been used within the context of phobic fears and anxiety disorders. It discusses in more detail how disgust-based mechanisms may play a role in the development, expression, and persistence of specific concerns. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Clinical Handbook of Fear and Anxiety |
| Subtitle of host publication | Maintenance Processes and Treatment Mechanisms |
| Editors | J. S. Abramowitz, S. M. Blakey |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association |
| Chapter | 5 |
| Pages | 81-98 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4338-3065-5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2020 |