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Parents develop long-term disgust habituation, but only after beginning to wean their children

2025-10-31

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<p>Disgust helps humans avoid potentially pathogenic substances such as bodily effluvia. This reduces illness risks, and is difficult to overcome with cognitive strategies or through short-term habituation (minutes to hours). Whether long-term habituation (months to years) exists is an unsolved question. While regular professional exposure to disgust elicitors is associated with lower disgust sensitivity and avoid...

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Literature Corpus work: 5e8dda36-2232-5bfa-a867-c6c25c555c08
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/zeugt_v3

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