无数工人在每个工作日处理身体外溢和身体信封违规,并因此面临深深不愉快的厌恶程度。了解他们是否以及如何适应可以帮助制定政策,以提高工人满意度并减少员工流失。到目前为止,有限的证据表明,在高厌恶环境中受雇的人中,自我报告的厌恶减少(或开始降低)。然而,目前尚不清楚这是由于需求效应还是转化为真正的行为变化。这里,我们测试了英国养老院雇用的医疗保健助理(N=32)和对照样本(N=50).与对照组相比,我们重复了医护人员自我报告的病原体厌恶敏感性降低。我们还发现它与职业持续时间呈负相关,表明长期习惯。此外,我们发现,医疗保健助理在基于网络的优先观察任务(相当于眼动追踪)中没有表现出行为厌恶回避.令人惊讶的是,这延伸到在养老院外发现的厌恶者,暗示厌恶习惯的概括。虽然我们发现身体外泄(核心厌恶)和身体包膜侵犯(戈尔厌恶)没有区别,概括并没有扩展到其他领域:自我报告的性和道德厌恶敏感性在医疗保健助理和对照组之间没有差异,与职业生涯持续时间也没有相关性。总之,我们的工作证实,在高频厌恶就业的人对病原体厌恶的敏感性较低。至关重要的是,我们提供的初步证据表明,这是由于一个长期的习惯过程,在病原体领域内,但不是超越它。
Countless workers handle bodily effluvia and body envelope violations every working day, and consequentially face deeply unpleasant levels of disgust. Understanding if and how they adapt can help inform policies to improve worker satisfaction and reduce staff turnover. So far, limited evidence exist that self-reported disgust is reduced (or lower to begin with) among those employed in high-disgust environments. However, it is unclear if this is due to demand effects or translates into real behavioural changes. Here, we tested healthcare assistants (N = 32) employed in UK care homes and a control sample (N = 50). We replicated reduced self-reported pathogen disgust sensitivity in healthcare workers compared to controls. We also found it negatively correlated with career duration, suggesting long-term habituation. Furthermore, we found that healthcare assistants showed no behavioural disgust avoidance on a web-based preferential looking task (equivalent to eye tracking). Surprisingly, this extended to disgust elicitors found outside care homes, suggesting generalisation of disgust habituation. While we found no difference between bodily effluvia (core disgust) and body envelope violations (gore disgust), generalisation did not extend to other domains: self-reported sexual and moral disgust sensitivity were not different between healthcare assistants and the control group, nor was there a correlation with career duration. In sum, our work confirms that people in high-frequency disgust employment are less sensitive to pathogen disgust. Crucially, we provide preliminary evidence that this is due to a process of long-term habituation with generalisation to disgust-elicitors within the pathogen domain, but not beyond it.