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From dirty blowouts to spit-up and stomach bugs, parents quickly learn that unpleasant messes are part of everyday life.

Disgust at uncontrolled sneezing, for example, is one of our main defences against infection The facial expression for disgust is universal. We can all picture the contorted, horrified face which ...

Welcome back to “Serve & Survey.” This week’s question came from a movie night watching Disney’s “Inside Out 2.” In the movie, a group of animated emotions fight for control, but, in the end, they ...

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, ...

Efforts to explain negative attitudes toward obese people have centered on beliefs about the controllability of body weight, whereas other processes (such as the emotion of disgust) have been largely ...

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 ...

Communitarian and conservative scholars believe that shame and disgust have central roles to play in public life. But in her new book Hiding From Humanity (Princeton), University of Chicago professor ...

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 ...

The facial expression for disgust is universal. We can all picture the contorted, horrified face which communicates a feeling of revulsion and loathing. Spiders, slimy creatures, mucus and faeces can ...