@article{ref1,
title="Does 'Yuck' mean 'Eek'? Fear responses in children after a disgust manipulation",
journal="Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry",
year="2011",
author="Muris, Peter and Huijding, Jorg and Mayer, Birgit and de Vries, Helen",
volume="43",
number="2",
pages="765-769",
abstract="BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Disgust is a basic emotion that is thought to play a role in the development of animal phobias. This study was conducted to test whether experimentally induced disgust also results in higher levels of fear and interpretation bias. METHODS: Children aged 9-13 years (N=94) were asked to inspect a set of specimen characteristic of a novel animal and requested to form themselves an impression of it based on those characteristics. Half of the children were given a set of disgust-eliciting products in relation to the animal, whereas the other half received a set of neutral materials. RESULTS: The main results indicated that children in the disgust specimen group exhibited an increase in fear towards the novel animal and a stronger inclination to interpret ambiguous situations involving this animal in a more negative way as compared to children in the neutral specimen group. CONCLUSION: These findings confirm that disgust has a fear-promoting effect.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0005-7916",
doi="10.1016/j.jbtep.2011.10.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2011.10.002"
}