Unfortunately, the hand-washing is only temporarily successful if that , and the intrusive thoughts and negative emotions soon return, triggering another episode of compulsive behaviour. The question is whether anything can be done to relieve intense feelings of disgust, whether or not you have OCD.
When it comes to disgust, people tend to have two types of thoughts. This is known as the primary appraisal.
Along with my colleagues, I wanted to explore which kind of thoughts might underlie extreme avoidance of disgusting situations and, importantly, whether it was possible to change these thoughts. The participants were divided into three groups. Both texts also appeared somewhat effective in encouraging participants to move closer to, and in some cases touch, a dead cockroach. None of our participants were diagnosed with OCD, so the next step is to test out these techniques with people who have contamination-related OCD.
Although some cognitive-behavioural therapists already do this as part of their treatment, our results could support the routine inclusion of these techniques — particularly those aimed at changing secondary appraisals.
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Thinking and intelligence. You can train yourself to find disgusting things less gross. Promiscuous sex could lead to infectious diseases. See the historical connections? The disgust response today may or may not be a good guide to what might make us sick today. Study says feeling grossed out can actually help you stay healthy, validating germaphobes everywhere. The results, said study leader David Pizarro, Cornell assistant professor of psychology, raise questions about the role of disgust -- an emotion that likely evolved in humans to keep them safe from potentially hazardous or disease-carrying environments -- in contemporary judgments of morality and purity.
From this they found a correlation between being more easily disgusted and political conservatism. To test whether disgust sensitivity is linked to specific conservative attitudes, the researchers then surveyed 91 Cornell undergraduates with the DSS, as well as with questions about their positions on issues including gay marriage, abortion, gun control, labor unions, tax cuts and affirmative action.
Participants who rated higher in disgust sensitivity were more likely to oppose gay marriage and abortion, issues that are related to notions of morality or purity.
The researchers also found a weak correlation between disgust sensitivity and support for tax cuts, but no link between disgust sensitivity and the other issues. And in a separate study in the current issue of the journal Emotion , Pizarro and colleagues found a link between higher disgust sensitivity and disapproval of gays and lesbians. For this study, the researchers used implicit measures measures that have been shown to assess attitudes people may be unwilling to report explicitly; or that they may not even know they possess.
Liberals and conservatives disagree about whether disgust has a valid place in making moral judgments, Pizarro noted. Conservatives have argued that there is inherent wisdom in repugnance; that feeling disgusted about something -- gay sex between consenting adults, for example -- is cause enough to judge it wrong or immoral, even lacking a concrete reason.
Liberals tend to disagree, and are more likely to base judgments on whether an action or a thing causes actual harm. Studying the link between disgust and moral judgment could help explain the strong differences in people's moral opinions, Pizarro said; and it could offer strategies for persuading some to change their views. That can have tragic effects -- as in cases throughout history where minorities have been victims of discrimination by groups that perceived them as having disgusting characteristics.
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