Does the sight of maggots squirming in rotten food make you look away in disgust? The phrase 'makes my stomach turn' takes on a new meaning today as researchers at the University of Cambridge reveal that changes in the rhythm ...
Nov 24, 2020
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Unhealthy behaviors trigger moral judgments that are similar to the basic emotions that contribute to our ability to survive. Two hypotheses are prevalent in the current scientific literature as to the identity of these emotions. ...
Oct 19, 2020
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Butchers and deli workers become desensitised to handling meat within the first two years of handling it as part of their job say psychologists.
May 12, 2020
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In wealthy societies we've become increasingly picky about what we eat. The "wrong" fruits and vegetables, the "wrong" animal parts, and the "wrong" animals inspire varying degrees of "yuck."
Sep 2, 2019
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Your Uber driver really needs a shower. A co-worker should change his socks. You wonder whether your gym's management might have a word with a particularly smelly regular.
Mar 5, 2018
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Why is the internet going crazy for videos of pimples popping, cysts exploding and stomach-churning ingrown hairs?
Oct 9, 2017
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Every person has both utilitarian (consequentialist) and Kantian (duty- or rule-based) moral intuitions, which are activated in different situations in different ways. The field of moral psychology studies these types of ...
Apr 14, 2017
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New research carried out by psychologists at the University of Kent has shown for the first time that a decision to express disgust or anger depends on the motives a person seeks to communicate.
Dec 19, 2016
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A person's character, more so than their actions, determines whether we find immoral acts to be 'disgusting,' according to new research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Dec 15, 2016
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Psychologists at the University of Sussex have found that a person's core disgust response is reduced if the source is within their own social group.
Feb 23, 2016
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