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The present studies were financed by the Spanish Government's grant PSI2009-07066 to the ISG, PG, and AK by the Programa Nacional de Movilidad de Recursos Humanos del Plan Nacional de 2008-2011 from the Ministerio de Educacion and by a DAAD fellowship to the ISG.

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Grima: A Distinct Emotion Concept?

Publicated to:Frontiers in Psychology. 8 (FEB): 467- - 2017-02-03 8(FEB), DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00131

Authors: Schweiger Gallo, Inge; Fernandez-Dols, Jose-Miguel; Gollwitzer, Peter M; Keil, Andreas

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NYU, Dept Psychol, Motivat Lab, 6 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003 USA - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Psicol Social & Metodol, Fac Psicol, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Complutense Madrid, Dept Psicol Spcial, Fac Ciencias Polit & Sociol, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Florida, Ctr Study Emot & Attent, Gainesville, FL USA - Author
Univ Konstanz, Dept Psychol, Social Psychol & Motivat, Constance, Germany - Author
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Abstract

People experience an unpleasant sensation when hearing a scratch on a board or plate. The present research focuses on this aversive experience known in Spanish as 'grima' with no equivalent term in English and German. We hypothesized that this aversive experience constitutes a distinctive, separate emotional concept. In Study 1, we found that the affective meaning of 'grima' was closer to disgust than to other emotion concepts. Thus, in Study 2 we explored the features of grima and compared them with disgust. As grima was reported to be predominantly elicited by certain auditory stimuli and associated with a distinctive physiological pattern, Study 3 used direct measures of physiological arousal to test the assumption of a distinctive pattern of physiological responses elicited by auditory stimuli of grima and disgust, and found different effects on heart rate but not on skin conductance. In Study 4, we hypothesized that only participants with an implementation intention geared toward down-regulating grima would be able to successfully weaken the grima- but not disgust- experience. Importantly, this effect was specific as it held true for the grima-eliciting sounds only, but did not affect disgust-related sounds. Finally, Study 5 found that English and German speakers lack a single accessible linguistic label for the pattern of aversive reactions termed by Spanish speaking individuals as 'grima', whereas the elicitors of other emotions were accessible and accurately identified by German, English, as well as Spanish speakers.

Keywords

ascoaversiondisgustgrimaAntecedentsAscoAversionCategoriesDisgustGrimaImplementation intentionsInitiationPerspectivePrototype analysisPsychological constructionQuestionsTranslation

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2017, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Psychology (Miscellaneous).

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-08-12:

  • WoS: 11
  • Scopus: 11
  • Europe PMC: 2

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-08-12:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 42.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 42 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 146.75.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 2 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 54 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on Wikipedia: 2 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 10 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Germany; United States of America.