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 ...

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 ...

This post was cowritten by Nathalie Boutros, Ph.D., and Tchiki Davis, M.A., Ph.D. Disgust has been identified as one of the universal emotions shared by all people (Rozin & Fallon, 1987). It is ...

What do crispy bacon, a juicy beef steak, human flesh and feces have in common? They all trigger the same powerful reaction in vegetarians—disgust. A study has compared the effects of a placebo pill ...

There are few better windows onto the intense debates raging over densification than Vancouver, Canada. Like in many cities undergoing an unprecedented increase in density, residents and leaders ...