Supreet Saluja

Biographic Data

ID6258781
NAMESupreet Saluja
GIVEN NAMESSupreet
FAMILY NAMESaluja
SIGNATURESALUJA S
AFFILIATIONSMacquarie University
ORCID0000-0002-5697-6171
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Sound source ambiguity augments illusory mislocalisation of computer presented stomach rumbles to self

    Open AccessRichard J Stevenson, Stevenson Richard et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2026

  • Testing a learning-based account of interoceptive hunger using an illusory induction

    Open AccessR J Stevenson, Heather M Francis et al.ARTICLEAppetite2026References: 42

    Physiological changes cause many interoceptive cues (e.g., a rumbling stomach), and so it is often assumed they also cause their motivational consequences (e.g., hunger). However, there is grounds to suspect that the meaning of interoceptive cues are learned and it is their meaning that causes their motivational consequences. We tested this possibility by psychologically inducing an illusory interoceptive hunger cue to see if it stimulated hunger…

  • Using a bodily illusion to examine the motivational basis of interoceptive hunger cues

    Open AccessR J Stevenson, Daiana Martin-Rivera et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2025

    Internal bodily sensations such as an empty rumbling stomach can lead to enhanced desire for food - hunger. As an empty rumbling stomach is caused by digestive physiology, it is often presumed that such physiological processes also cause hunger. However, psychological processes could equally generate hunger (e.g., based on what the physiological signal has come to connote), and here we outline a method to test this idea. Participants were exposed…

  • Barriers to adequate fruit and vegetable Consumption

    Open AccessL M Dudley, Leah S Dudley et al.ARTICLEAppetite2025Cited by: 1References: 44

  • Psychological induction of interoceptive hunger cues and their effect on food desire

    Open AccessR J Stevenson, Supreet Saluja et al.ARTICLEAppetite2025Cited by: 1References: 58

    Certain interoceptive hunger cues are caused by gut physiology. These interoceptive cues may have psychological consequences, namely an ability to enhance the desire to eat, which are independent of their physiological cause. Testing this idea is difficult because the physiological processes are normally linked to any consequence. In this preliminary report we attempted to induce an interoceptive hunger cue (a stomach rumble), to examine its psyc…

  • The Functions of Human Touch

    Open AccessSupreet Saluja, Ilona Croy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Nonverbal Behavior2024

    There appears to be no attempt to categorize the specific classes of behavior that the tactile system underpins. Awareness of how an organism uses touch in their environment informs understanding of its versatility in non-verbal communication and tactile perception. This review categorizes the behavioral functions underpinned by the tactile sense, by using three sources of data: (1) Animal data, to assess if an identified function is conserved ac…

  • A review of the phenomenology, aetiology and treatment of animal phobia and insights for biophobia

    Open AccessMelissa M Norberg, Shanara Visvalingam et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2024

    Biophobia refers to a fear of living things, which leads to alienation from nature. The literature examining the underlying mechanisms and treatment of biophobia is sparse. This review aims to increase the readers' understanding of biophobia by examining the more extensive literature on specific phobias, namely animal phobia, as it most closely resembles biophobia. Fear, anxiety and disgust play an important role in specific phobias. Their trigge…

  • Effects of sickness manipulation on disgust and pleasantness in interpersonal touch

    Open AccessAnne Gruhl, Supreet Saluja et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2023

    The theory of the behavioral immune system (BIS) describes a set of behaviors that protect the individual from infectious diseases and that are motivated by disgust and the perceived vulnerability to disease. As interpersonal touch is one of the most common situations of potential transmission of infectious diseases in our everyday life, it seems likely that being touched by an apparently sick individual activates disgust. Our aim was to determin…

  • Facial disgust in response to touches, smells, and tastes

    Supreet Saluja, Ilona Croy et al.ARTICLEEmotion2023

    Disgust serves to defend the body from the entry of toxins and disease. Central to this function is a strong relationship with the proximate senses of smell, taste, and touch. Theory suggests that distinct and reflexive facial movements should be evoked by gustatory and olfactory disgusts, serving to impede bodily entry. While this hypothesis has received some support from facial recognition studies, whether smell and taste disgusts actually prod…

  • Recollections about food when hungry and sated

    Open AccessR J Stevenson, Heather M Francis et al.ARTICLEAppetite2022Cited by: 2References: 39

  • Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships

    Open AccessAgnieszka Sorokowska, Supreet Saluja et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2021

    Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual…

  • Interpersonal distancing preferences, touch behaviors to strangers, and country-level early dynamics of Sars-CoV-2 spread

    Agnieszka Sorokowska, Supreet Saluja et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2021

    The recent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to "social distancing" recommendations from public health organizations, as physical closeness bears the risk of person-to-person Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission. Here, it was explored if interpersonal distance preferences and touch behaviors in 41 countries were valid measures of physical distancing in contacts between strangers and whether …