title: Does 'Yuck' mean 'Eek'? Fear responses in children after a disgust manipulation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings confirm that disgust has a fear-promoting effect.
authors: Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. peter.muris@maastrichtuniversity.nl
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Muris
authors: Jorg
authors: J
authors: Huijding
authors: Birgit
authors: B
authors: Mayer
authors: Helen
authors: H
authors: de Vries
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D001290:Attitude; D015982:Bias; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D004644:Emotions; D005239:Fear / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D008297:Male; D008394:Marsupialia; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales