@article{ref1,
title="Skin-transmitted pathogens and the heebie jeebies: evidence for a subclass of disgust stimuli that evoke a qualitatively unique emotional response",
journal="Cognition and emotion",
year="2016",
author="Blake, Khandis R. and Yih, Jennifer and Zhao, Kun and Sung, Billy and Harmon-Jones, Cindy",
volume="31",
number="6",
pages="1153-1168",
abstract="Skin-transmitted pathogens have threatened humans since ancient times. We investigated whether skin-transmitted pathogens were a subclass of disgust stimuli that evoked an emotional response that was related to, but distinct from, disgust and fear. We labelled this response &quot;the heebie jeebies&quot;. In Study 1, coding of 76 participants' experiences of disgust, fear, and the heebie jeebies showed that the heebie jeebies was elicited by unique stimuli which produced skin-crawling sensations and an urge to protect the skin. In Experiment 2,350 participants' responses to skin-transmitted pathogen, fear-inducing, and disgust-inducing vignettes showed that the vignettes elicited sensations and urges which loaded onto heebie jeebies, fear, and disgust factors, respectively. Experiment 3 largely replicated findings from Experiment 2 using video stimuli (178 participants). <br><br>RESULTS are consistent with the notion that skin-transmitted pathogens are a subclass of disgust stimuli which motivate behaviours that are functionally consistent with disgust yet qualitatively distinct.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0269-9931",
doi="10.1080/02699931.2016.1202199",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1202199"
}