Megan Oaten
Biographic Data
| ID | 2427296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Oaten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Oaten |
| SIGNATURE | OATEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8855-219X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The influence of disease label, disease signs and levels of contact on the stigmatization of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
‘Nobody wants to talk about that stuff’
Objective Little research has explored in-depth qualitative opinions on anticipated public views of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) among those with the condition, and the potential impact of these views on wellbeing. This study explored the perceptions and reactions anticipated by those with IBD from the public (RQ1), and the impact these anticipated perceptions have on participants’ physical and psychological health, and their quality of life …
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease
Previous studies found similarities in adults' disgust responses to benign (e.g. obesity) and actual disease signs (e.g. influenza). However, limited research has compared visual (i.e. benign and actual) to cognitive (i.e. disease label) disease cues in different age groups. The current study investigated disgust responses across middle childhood (7-9 years), late childhood (10-12 years), adolescence (13-17 years), and adulthood (18+ years). Part…
The Factorial Structure of Stigma and Its Targets
We aimed to determine (1) the attributes of multiple stigmatized populations, (2) whether Kurzban and Leary’s (2001) functional typology of stigma emerges and identifies the dimensions upon which each stigma type differs, and (3) the emotional responses toward emergent stigma types. Participants ( N = 2,674) were assigned to 1/52 stigma target conditions and their attitudes surveyed. Data were analyzed by multilevel factor analysis with stigma ta…
Wanting and liking for sugar sweetened beverages and snacks differ following depletion and repletion with energy and fluids
Compensatory up-regulation of behavioral disease avoidance in immuno-compromised people with rheumatoid arthritis
Women’s Talk?
According to some feminist critiques, gossip is merely a form of women’s talk and thus an activity that men do not participate in. Yet gossip may be an ideal strategy for both men and women to engage in when involved in mate competition, allowing the individual to covertly damage a competitor’s reputation while simultaneously preserving his or her own. This chapter investigates the role of gossip in mate competition, considering the influence of …
Is Disgust Prepared? A Preliminary Examination in Young Children
Children may be prepared to associate adult disgust reactions with adult disgust elicitors. To test this, three-year olds (and adults) were presented with two images and an emotive vocalization. The images and vocalizations included stimuli adults found disgusting, fear-provoking, and sad. On one set of trials, the main dependent variable (DV) was time spent looking at each image and on a second set of repeat trials the DV was knowledge of image-…
Facial disfigurement is treated like an infectious disease
Self-control training decreases aggression in response to provocation in aggressive individuals
Effect of Self-Reported Sexual Arousal on Responses to Sex-Related and Non-Sex-Related Disgust Cues
Children’s response to adult disgust elicitors
Little is known about when or how different disgust elicitors are acquired. In Study 1, parents of children (0-18 years old) rated how their child would react to 22 disgust elicitors. Different developmental patterns were identified for core, animal, and sociomoral elicitors, with core elicitors emerging first. In Study 2, children (2-16 years old) were exposed alone and then with their parent to a range of elicitors derived from Study 1. Self-re…
Frequency and recency of infection and their relationship with disgust and contamination sensitivity
Self-regulatory failure and intimate partner violence perpetration
Five studies tested the hypothesis that self-regulatory failure is an important predictor of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Study 1 participants were far more likely to experience a violent impulse during conflictual interaction with their romantic partner than they were to enact a violent behavior, suggesting that self-regulatory processes help individuals refrain from perpetrating IPV when they experience a violent impulse. Study…
Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism
Many researchers have claimed that the emotion of disgust functions to protect us from disease. Although there have been several discussions of this hypothesis, none have yet reviewed the evidence in its entirety. The authors derive 14 hypotheses from a disease-avoidance account and evaluate the evidence for each, drawing upon research on pathogen avoidance in animals and empirical research on disgust. In all but 1 case, the evidence favors a dis…
Can the emotion of disgust be harnessed to promote hand hygiene? Experimental and field-based tests
Improvements in self-control from financial monitoring
Longitudinal gains in self‐regulation from regular physical exercise
Objectives. The purpose of the present study was to test whether the repeated practice of self‐regulation could improve regulatory strength over time. Method. Regulatory performance was assessed at baseline, then at monthly intervals for a period of 4 months using a visual tracking task. Perceived stress, emotional distress, self‐efficacy and general regulatory behaviour were assessed by questionnaire. Following a 2‐month control phase, participa…
Self‐Regulation and Personality
Self‐regulation is a highly adaptive, distinctively human trait that enables people to override and alter their responses, including changing themselves so as to live up to social and other standards. Recent evidence indicates that self‐regulation often consumes a limited resource, akin to energy or strength, thereby creating a temporary state of ego depletion. This article summarizes recent evidence indicating that regular exercises in self‐regu…
Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism
Many researchers have claimed that the emotion of disgust functions to protect us from disease. Although there have been several discussions of this hypothesis, none have yet reviewed the evidence in its entirety. The authors derive 14 hypotheses from a disease-avoidance account and evaluate the evidence for each, drawing upon research on pathogen avoidance in animals and empirical research on disgust. In all but 1 case, the evidence favors a dis…
Self-regulatory failure and intimate partner violence perpetration
Five studies tested the hypothesis that self-regulatory failure is an important predictor of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Study 1 participants were far more likely to experience a violent impulse during conflictual interaction with their romantic partner than they were to enact a violent behavior, suggesting that self-regulatory processes help individuals refrain from perpetrating IPV when they experience a violent impulse. Study…
Self-control training decreases aggression in response to provocation in aggressive individuals
Effect of Self-Reported Sexual Arousal on Responses to Sex-Related and Non-Sex-Related Disgust Cues
Improvements in self-control from financial monitoring
Children’s response to adult disgust elicitors
Little is known about when or how different disgust elicitors are acquired. In Study 1, parents of children (0-18 years old) rated how their child would react to 22 disgust elicitors. Different developmental patterns were identified for core, animal, and sociomoral elicitors, with core elicitors emerging first. In Study 2, children (2-16 years old) were exposed alone and then with their parent to a range of elicitors derived from Study 1. Self-re…
Can the emotion of disgust be harnessed to promote hand hygiene? Experimental and field-based tests
Wanting and liking for sugar sweetened beverages and snacks differ following depletion and repletion with energy and fluids
Longitudinal gains in self‐regulation from regular physical exercise
Objectives. The purpose of the present study was to test whether the repeated practice of self‐regulation could improve regulatory strength over time. Method. Regulatory performance was assessed at baseline, then at monthly intervals for a period of 4 months using a visual tracking task. Perceived stress, emotional distress, self‐efficacy and general regulatory behaviour were assessed by questionnaire. Following a 2‐month control phase, participa…
Self‐Regulation and Personality
Self‐regulation is a highly adaptive, distinctively human trait that enables people to override and alter their responses, including changing themselves so as to live up to social and other standards. Recent evidence indicates that self‐regulation often consumes a limited resource, akin to energy or strength, thereby creating a temporary state of ego depletion. This article summarizes recent evidence indicating that regular exercises in self‐regu…
Improvements in self-control from financial monitoring
Frequency and recency of infection and their relationship with disgust and contamination sensitivity
Self-regulatory failure and intimate partner violence perpetration
Five studies tested the hypothesis that self-regulatory failure is an important predictor of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Study 1 participants were far more likely to experience a violent impulse during conflictual interaction with their romantic partner than they were to enact a violent behavior, suggesting that self-regulatory processes help individuals refrain from perpetrating IPV when they experience a violent impulse. Study…
Disgust as a disease-avoidance mechanism
Many researchers have claimed that the emotion of disgust functions to protect us from disease. Although there have been several discussions of this hypothesis, none have yet reviewed the evidence in its entirety. The authors derive 14 hypotheses from a disease-avoidance account and evaluate the evidence for each, drawing upon research on pathogen avoidance in animals and empirical research on disgust. In all but 1 case, the evidence favors a dis…
Can the emotion of disgust be harnessed to promote hand hygiene? Experimental and field-based tests
Children’s response to adult disgust elicitors
Little is known about when or how different disgust elicitors are acquired. In Study 1, parents of children (0-18 years old) rated how their child would react to 22 disgust elicitors. Different developmental patterns were identified for core, animal, and sociomoral elicitors, with core elicitors emerging first. In Study 2, children (2-16 years old) were exposed alone and then with their parent to a range of elicitors derived from Study 1. Self-re…
Self-control training decreases aggression in response to provocation in aggressive individuals
Effect of Self-Reported Sexual Arousal on Responses to Sex-Related and Non-Sex-Related Disgust Cues
Facial disfigurement is treated like an infectious disease
Is Disgust Prepared? A Preliminary Examination in Young Children
Children may be prepared to associate adult disgust reactions with adult disgust elicitors. To test this, three-year olds (and adults) were presented with two images and an emotive vocalization. The images and vocalizations included stimuli adults found disgusting, fear-provoking, and sad. On one set of trials, the main dependent variable (DV) was time spent looking at each image and on a second set of repeat trials the DV was knowledge of image-…
Women’s Talk?
According to some feminist critiques, gossip is merely a form of women’s talk and thus an activity that men do not participate in. Yet gossip may be an ideal strategy for both men and women to engage in when involved in mate competition, allowing the individual to covertly damage a competitor’s reputation while simultaneously preserving his or her own. This chapter investigates the role of gossip in mate competition, considering the influence of …
Compensatory up-regulation of behavioral disease avoidance in immuno-compromised people with rheumatoid arthritis
Wanting and liking for sugar sweetened beverages and snacks differ following depletion and repletion with energy and fluids
The Factorial Structure of Stigma and Its Targets
We aimed to determine (1) the attributes of multiple stigmatized populations, (2) whether Kurzban and Leary’s (2001) functional typology of stigma emerges and identifies the dimensions upon which each stigma type differs, and (3) the emotional responses toward emergent stigma types. Participants ( N = 2,674) were assigned to 1/52 stigma target conditions and their attitudes surveyed. Data were analyzed by multilevel factor analysis with stigma ta…
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease
Previous studies found similarities in adults' disgust responses to benign (e.g. obesity) and actual disease signs (e.g. influenza). However, limited research has compared visual (i.e. benign and actual) to cognitive (i.e. disease label) disease cues in different age groups. The current study investigated disgust responses across middle childhood (7-9 years), late childhood (10-12 years), adolescence (13-17 years), and adulthood (18+ years). Part…
The influence of disease label, disease signs and levels of contact on the stigmatization of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
‘Nobody wants to talk about that stuff’
Objective Little research has explored in-depth qualitative opinions on anticipated public views of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) among those with the condition, and the potential impact of these views on wellbeing. This study explored the perceptions and reactions anticipated by those with IBD from the public (RQ1), and the impact these anticipated perceptions have on participants’ physical and psychological health, and their quality of life …
Psychology (18 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Disgust (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Anger (7 works) · Disease (7 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (6 works)