The Role of disgust in eating disorders

Food elicits several affective responses in us, from sensory (visual, olfactory, etc.) to emotional, which play a key role in influencing product choice and new product adoption. In this literature review by Kaneko et al. (2018), the authors present a detailed summary of the currently employed methods used to evaluate emotional responses to food, organized […]

Anderson et al. (2018) write that while fear and disgust are separate emotions both previously linked with eating disorders, it is possible that one is more strongly associated with eating disorders than the other. This study therefore aimed to discover the relative importance of fear and disgust in accounting for variance in eating disorder symptoms. […]