Craig N. Sawchuk

TL;DR: Assessment of the item adequacy, factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Disgust Scale suggested that 7 items should be considered for removal from the DS, as patients with OCD washing concerns scored significantly higher than patients without washing concerns on both Coredisgust and Contamination-Based DisGust, but not on Animal Reminder DisgUST.

TL;DR: The findings in samples of people with OCD, people with other anxiety disorders or depression, community adults, and undergraduate students suggest that the VOCI is a promising new measure, and it is anticipated that it will have widespread use in both research and clinical settings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the nature, experience, and other associated features of disgust are outlined and a review of domains of disgust and how these domains have expanded over time is presented. And the function of disgust in various social constructions, such as cigarette smoking, vegetarianism, and homophobia, is highlighted.

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that contamination fear was best predicted by seven different disgust domains, thereby suggesting that the contamination fear is accounted for by generalized, rather than domain-specific, disgust elicitors.

TL;DR: Results are consistent with a disgust-based, disease-avoidance approach in understanding contamination-related OCD themes and disgust generally emerging as the dominant emotional response.