Disgust is an incredibly powerful negative emotion, capable of inducing vomiting, panic, and rage. The sound evolutionary reason for our experience of disgust is that it helped keep us alive—by making ...

For psychologists who study it, disgust is one of the primal emotions that define — and explain — humanity.Credit...Maisie Cousins for The New York Times The Great Read For psychologists who study it, ...

With a War-of-the-Worlds-proportion panic washing over the country, many are wondering what the next few months will look like in terms of basic daily life. As a disgust researcher, I have been ...

Poor hygiene, insects or other animals that may carry disease and risky sexual behavior are among the distinct kinds of disgust that can help us to avoid disease and infection, according to new ...

WE SHOULD really care about disgust. Not only does it protect us from coming into contact with possibly dangerous substances, such as rotting meat, but it is also central to understanding our moral ...

Philip Powell is Principal Investigator on the project "Feeling sick or going green? Overcoming the 'yuck factor' as a barrier to sustainable consumption" funded by the Grantham Centre for Sustainable ...

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We are living in unprecedented times. Much of the world is in lockdown in an attempt to fight a new and dangerous virus called COVID-19. The pandemic has generated much stress and anxiety, and none ...