Humans perceive snakes as threatening stimuli, resulting in fast emotional and behavioral
responses. However, snake species differ in their true level of danger and are highly …

BACKGROUND Blood donor recruitment remains an important worldwide challenge due to
changes in population demographics and shifts in the demand for blood. Various cognitive …

Embodied theories of emotion assume that emotional processing is grounded in bodily and
affective processes. Accordingly, the perception of an emotion re-enacts congruent sensory …

The capture of exogenous attention by negative stimuli has been interpreted as adaptive for
survival in a diverse and changing environment. In the present paper, we investigate the …

Systems for reusing containers (eg, for takeaway food) represent one way to reduce waste.
However, evidence suggests that people are relatively unwilling to reuse containers …

Core disgust is elicited by physical or chemical stimuli, while moral disgust is evoked by
abstract violations of moral norms. Although previous studies have pointed out these two …

The autonomic regulation in blood‐injection‐injury (BII) phobia has received particular
attention due to the unique link between fear and fainting in this anxiety disorder. However …

Background Blood injection injury (BII) phobia is common, with debilitating consequences to
the health and well being of many of its sufferers. BII phobia presents with a unique fear …

Vasovagal reactions are conventionally understood as resulting from systemic changes in
cardiovascular activity; however, there exists a complementary perspective focused on …

Imagining fictional creatures like zombies in survival situations boosts long-term memory for
words encoded in these situations more than rating words for pleasantness (zombie effect) …