Figure 1
Study 1: Perceptions of disgust as a function of focus manipulation.
Figure 2
Study 1: Perceptions of biologization as a function of focus manipulation (the biologization score resulted from the difference between the virus- and the human-related words; higher scores indicated stronger perceptions of the target as virus-like than a human being).
Figure 3
Study 1: Disgust mediates the relation between focus manipulation (1 = environment, 0 = person) and biologization (unstandardized estimates; estimate of the mediated model is in parentheses). **p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001.
Figure 4
Study 2: Model testing the indirect effect from the type of work to biologization through work environment perceptions and feelings of disgust (unstandardized estimates; estimate of the mediated model is in parentheses). *p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001.