Ecosystems provide many of the material building blocks for human well-being. Although
quantification and appreciation of such contributions have rapidly grown, our dependence …

Clinical anxiety disorders and elevated levels of anxiety vulnerability are characterized by
cognitive biases, and this processing selectivity has been implicated in theoretical accounts …

Elicitation is the process of extracting expert knowledge about some unknown quantity or
quantities, and formulating that information as a probability distribution. Elicitation is …

In the 4 studies presented (N= 1,939), a converging set of analyses was conducted to
evaluate the item adequacy, factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Disgust Scale (DS; …

Anxiety disorders have traditionally been conceptualized as reflecting the emotions of fear
and anxiety. A developing program of research demonstrates a relation between disgust …

Studies obtaining implicit measures of associations in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (4th ed., Text Revision; American Psychiatric Association, 2000) Axis I …

This review analyses the accumulating evidence from psychological, psychophysiological,
neurobiological and cognitive studies suggesting that the disease-avoidance emotion of …

This paper attempts to fill the partial theoretical vacuum surrounding the understanding of
fear acquisition. A review of recent and contemporary theories of the etiology of fear is …

Animal phobias are one of the most prevalent mental disorders. We analysed how fear and
disgust, two emotions involved in their onset and maintenance, are elicited by common …

Previous research has shown a relationship between the emotion of disgust and the fear of
contamination. Heightened sensitivity to disgust and increased concerns over contamination …