Abstract
The present study investigates the relations between fear, disgust, and fainting symptoms in blood–injection–injury (BII) fears. Participants classified as BII fearful (BII) and non-BII fearful (NF) were exposed to fear relevant (body mutilation) and irrelevant (spider, contaminated food) pictorial stimuli. The participants were also presented with in vivo fear relevant (mutilation) and fear irrelevant (spider, contaminated food) stimuli. Results indicated that BII individuals reported more fear, disgust, and fainting symptoms toward fear relevant and fear irrelevant pictorial and in vivo stimuli compared with NF individuals. Fear and disgust responding on the pictorial task for mutilation stimuli did not predict fainting symptoms in the BII cohort. However, fear responses to the in vivo mutilation stimulus significantly predicted fainting symptoms when controlling for disgust, whereas disgust responding to the in vivo mutilation item did not significantly predict fainting symptoms when controlling for fear. Physiological assessment failed to consistently differentiate the BII group from the NF group. Theoretical implications of these findings for the role of fear and disgust in BII fear are discussed.
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