Author(s): Pelzer M; Ouellet-Courtois C; Krause S; Coughtrey A; Fink-Lamotte J;

Background: Perceiving a threat as constantly evolving, coming closer and escalating quickly can result in looming vulnerability (LV). LV may be a distal factor in contamination-based OCD (C-OCD) influencing disorder-specific mechanisms such as disgust. The aim of this study was to gain knowledge about three components of LV: speed, proximity and accelera ...

Article GUID: 40858003

Author(s): Ouellet-Courtois C; Radomsky AS;

While extant research underlines the role of disgust in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with contamination fear, less research attention has been devoted to moral disgust. This study endeavored to examine the types of appraisals that are elicited by moral disgust in comparison to core disgust, and to examine their associations with both contact and me ...

Article GUID: 37270955

Author(s): Desmarais C; Roy M; Nguyen MT; Venkatesh V; Rousseau C;

The global rise of populism and concomitant polarizations across disenfranchised and marginalized groups has been magnified by so-called echo chambers, and a major public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic has only served to fuel these intergroup tensions. Media institutions disseminating information on ways to prevent the propagation of the virus h ...

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