APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Why Not Donate, Are You Disgusted?: The Relation between the Emotion of Disgust and Organ Donation Attitudes

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Social

  • Barış Sevi
    West Virginia University
  • Natalie Shook
    West Virginia University

Abstract

This study investigated the emotion disgust and dangerous world beliefs (DWB) as possible predictors of organ donation attitudes. The results of an online survey showed that disgust sensitivity and DWB were related to negative organ donation attitudes. Furthermore, DWB partially mediated the association between disgust and organ donation attitudes.

Health/Exercise/Sport

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