Intrusive imagery is hypothesised to evoke feelings of contamination and urges to wash.
It has recently been identified that feelings of contamination can arise in the absence of physical contact with a stimulus.
These reactions not to mention victims' feelings of contamination, of having been defiled or desecrated are often exacerbated by cultural judgments of raped women as dirty and impure, or as "damaged goods".
One consequence, he argues, is "disgust skepticism" (139), according to which the combination of disgust's hair trigger and its ballistic trajectory mean that it is extremely prone to incorrigible false positives that involve unwarranted feelings of contamination and even dehumanization.
For a few, the distaste and the feelings of contamination remained dominant: "I found the smell and trying to get rid of them [used continence pads] most distressing.
For instance, study participants described perceptions of stigma resulting from feelings of contamination and fear of disclosure to others, from whom they anticipated rejection, much of which was on the basis of fear of disease transmission [ 67].
I had the same response to Kate Arrington, another young cast member, who plays Cora, a streetwalker who yearns for legitimacy, but whose feeling of self-contamination overwhelms the moments when her hope surfaces, like a buoy in filthy waters.
Since mental contamination has a moral element, we tested the effects of the level of religiosity on feelings of mental contamination and related variables in an experimental design.
Previous studies evoked feelings of mental contamination via listening to a scenario, which described a non-consensual kiss.
A diagnosis with genital herpes may also cause psychosocial and psychological distress,[ 38] including feelings of betrayal, contamination, loss of self-esteem and shame,[ 39] though the distress experienced may be short-term[ 40, 41].
