The Effect of Disgust and Fear Modeling on Children’s Disgust and Fear for Animals

Disgust is a protective emotion associated with certain types of animal fears. Given that a primary function of disgust is to protect against harm, increasing children’s disgust-related beliefs for animals may affect how threatening they think animals are and their avoidance of them. One way that ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Askew, Chris, Çakır, Kübra, Põldsam, Liine, Reynolds, Gemma
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: American Psychological Association 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120976/