Infectious disease threatens humans across cultures and time periods. The mental
mechanisms that have evolved to navigate this threat can have non-intuitive consequences …

Objective Stigmatization of obesity is common, but whether this stigma extends to people
with obesity also being considered less human than individuals without obesity has not …

Disgust may play an important role in several mental disorders, in part because disgust
seems impervious to corrective information, a feature noted long before it was studied by …

Abstract “Feeling fat” is a subjective state that theoretically contributes to the maintenance of
binge eating (BE). However, feeling fat, and its relation to BE among individuals with higher …

Individuals with an eating disorder (ED) often report to be disgusted by their body. Body‐
related self‐disgust could play an important role in the development and maintenance of …

Disgust motivates avoidance of stimuli associated with pathogens. Although disgust
primarily inhibits oral and epidermal contact, it may also inhibit perceptual contact …

The behavioral avoidance of people with obesity is well documented, but its psychological
basis is poorly understood. Based upon a disease avoidance account of stigmatization, we …

Prejudice is a significant social issue, perpetrated and experienced by many people around
the world. In its most benign form, prejudice is merely a heuristic used to conserve mental …

Based on the assumption that valence is permanently linked to facial responses, we
expected that the corrugator muscle is contracted faster in response to overweight persons …

The present study examined the associations between three forms of disgust sensitivity (ie
moral, pathogen, and sexual) and homonegativity towards gay men and lesbian women …