Of no small interest to Darwin and, after him, to Freud and all those working in his wide cultural shadow, disgust as a topic of theoretical inquiry would go into retreat for much of the latter part ...

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 ...

So picture this: Just yesterday, you read a news story that warned people about a massive uptick in COVID in your state. You're not quite ready to find your old masks, but you make a mental note for ...

We all have things that disgust us irrationally, whether it be cockroaches or chitterlings or cotton balls. For me, it’s fruit soda. It started when I was 3; my mom offered me a can of Sunkist after ...

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 ...

When I was in the third year of my undergraduate degree, my classmates and I were tasked with quite a terrible experiment for our microbiology class. We were to fill Petri dishes with agar-agar and ...