The ‘stickiness’ of disgust: Testing the hypothesis of disgust intractability in the context of instrumental reversal learning.
Discrete emotion theories conceptualise fear and disgust as distinct emotions. This notion is supported by the finding that Pavlovian disgust conditioning is more resistant to extinction than fear conditioning—disgust may be ‘stickier’ than fear. Dimensional emotion theories challenge this, suggesting that categorical...
Emily Bagley, Camilla Nord
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