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 ...

Jane Simpson and Philip Powell are co-editors on a book on self-disgust. Philip Powell currently receives funding from the EPSRC. He is affiliated with the International Society for Research on ...

Feeling disgust for something, or worse, someone, is one of the most difficult emotional states for anyone to control. In fact, many of us even have trouble even recognizing this feeling when it ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Valerie Curtis is fascinated by feces. And by vomit, pus, urine, maggots and putrid flesh. It is not the oozing, reeking substances themselves that play on her mind, but our ...

Disgust may play a role in a sexual dysfunction that often renders penetration impossible, new research finds, perhaps revealing a psychological component to physical sexual complaints. Specifically, ...

Even the most secular people and societies usually have their behaviour shaped by religion. We can see its influence in behavioural codes that set out what is considered right and wrong. But we can ...

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 ...

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