Disgust Sensitivity and Anorexia Nervosa

Aharoni, Ruth; Hertz, Marianne M.

doi:10.1002/erv.1124

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“…Aharoni and Hertz [44] demonstrated that individuals suffering from Anorexia Nervosa scored consistently higher on the Disgust Scale [30]. Therefore, we assessed participants’ risk of presenting an eating disorder by means of the EAT-26 [31].…”

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confidence: 99%

Food-Induced Emotional Resonance Improves Emotion Recognition

2016

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The effect of food substances on emotional states has been widely investigated, showing, for example, that eating chocolate is able to reduce negative mood. Here, for the first time, we have shown that the consumption of specific food substances is not only able to induce particular emotional states, but more importantly, to facilitate recognition of corresponding emotional facial expressions in others. Participants were asked to perform an emotion recognition task before and after eating either a piece of chocolate or a small amount of fish sauce—which we expected to induce happiness or disgust, respectively. Our results showed that being in a specific emotional state improves recognition of the corresponding emotional facial expression. Indeed, eating chocolate improved recognition of happy faces, while disgusted expressions were more readily recognized after eating fish sauce. In line with the embodied account of emotion understanding, we suggest that people are better at inferring the emotional state of others when their own emotional state resonates with the observed one.

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confidence: 99%

Food-Induced Emotional Resonance Improves Emotion Recognition

2016

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“…As with sensorial pleasures, research focused upon the significance of disgust in context of experiences of eating disorders is also relatively absent (Troop et al 2000;Warin 2010;Aharoni and Hertz 2012). While Aharoni and Hertz (2012) have found conclusively that eating disorders subjects have a higher sensitivity on a number of measures of disgust particularly in relation to bodily contagionthe contextualizing of disgust is in quantifiable terms -and misses the sensorial experiences that disgust evokes.…”

Section: Introduction: Mouthing Pleasure and Disgustmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Potentially those affected by bulimia are much closer to the bodily encounters that may elicit feelings of self-disgust and shame due to the nature of bingeing and purging (Aharoni and Hertz 2012). In contrast, a person who is an anorectic who restricts food and does not binge and purge may feel the threat from disgusting images and ideas.…”

Section: Mouthing Disgust and Pleasure In Eating Disordersmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…While Aharoni and Hertz (2012) have found conclusively that eating disorders subjects have a higher sensitivity on a number of measures of disgust particularly in relation to bodily contagionthe contextualizing of disgust is in quantifiable terms -and misses the sensorial experiences that disgust evokes. In addition, disgust tends to be presented in eating disorders in contradistinction to any perceived pleasure.…”

Section: Introduction: Mouthing Pleasure and Disgustmentioning

confidence: 94%

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Mouthing Disgust and Pleasure in Eating Disorders

Platten¹,

Warin²,

Coggrave³

2014

The Senses and Society

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a Bronwyn Platten is an artist-researcher whose work intersects the disciplines of arts and health with specific interests in co-creative and multisensory art, gender, phenomenology, and embodiment. b Megan Warin is a social anthropologist whose research interests coalesce around the gendering of health and illness (including anorexia), sensuous scholarship, and public understanding of scientific paradigms of obesity. c Sarah Coggrave is final-year BA visual arts student at the University of Salford, Manchester. She previously obtained an MA in international criminology from the University of Sheffield.ABSTRACT This article explores the complex sensorial encounters that people with eating disorders have in response to their mouths, food, eating, and embodiment. We argue that relationships to food, perceived primarily in clinical and psychological terms of control and discipline, ignore sensorial and generative dimensions of embodiment and the associated affective agency of hungers, pleasures, and disgust. Through analysis of the filmed performance of Untitled (The Party), we examine how the mouth for people with eating disorders embodies a metaphorical space of disgust, but also pleasure. As a soft, moist bodily opening, Bronwyn Platten is an artist-researcher whose work intersects the disciplines of arts and health with specific interests in co-creative and multisensory art, gender, phenomenology, and embodiment. info@bronwynplatten.com Megan Warin is a social anthropologist whose research interests coalesce around the gendering of health and illness (including anorexia), sensuous scholarship, and public understanding of scientific paradigms of obesity. megan.warin@adelaide.edu.au Sarah Coggrave is final-year BA visual arts student at the University of Salford, Manchester. She previously obtained an MA in international criminology from the University of Sheffield.

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“…Another non-specific vulnerability for women with concerns about their genitalia may be disgust sensitivity which is increased in women with dyspareunia or sexual dysfunction (Jong, van Overveld, Shultz, Peters, & Buwalda, 2009); and body image disorders such as anorexia nervosa (Aharoni & Hertz, 2012) or BDD (Neziroglu, Hickey, & McKay, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%