Unique Affective and Cognitive Processes in Contamination Appraisals: Implications for Contamination Fear

摘要: A large body of evidence suggests an important role disgust in contamination fear (CF). separate line research implicates various cognitive mechanisms fear, including obsessive beliefs, memory biases, and delayed attentional disengagement from threat. This study is initial attempt to integrate these two lines examines whether attention threat explain unique or overlapping processes within CF. Non-clinical undergraduate students (N = 108) completed a spatial cueing task, which provided measures frightening disgusting cues, self-report measure propensity (DP). Participants also chain contagion they appraisals object as function degrees removal contaminant. Results demonstrated that DP predicted greater appraisals, but sharper decline estimations across further the Delayed cues uniquely sustained elevations These results suggest complimentary utility incorporating disparate affective on