My Facebook feed has three kinds of posts. People give happy and sad updates about their lives. They promote things they are doing and writing. And they link to stories about current events. The ...

When we witness behaviours that violate shared moral norms, our brain inhibits the neurons that control our tongue movements - just like it happens when something tastes bad. An international research ...

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 ...

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 ...

Think about the last time you were morally outraged. Chances are you felt angry, but did you also feel disgust? Consider how you might feel in a court of law after watching a video of a heinous crime.

Does the media reflect or exacerbate public disquiet? Is ‘net zero’ a moral pursuit? To know or not to know? Is recognising the state of Palestine a moral duty? Is democracy a failed experiment? 27 ...

Politics and the Life Sciences, Vol. 39, No. 2, Special Issue: Disgust and Political Attitudes (Fall 2020), pp. 200-214 (15 pages) Many U.S. states have proposed policies that restrict bathroom access ...

Editor’s Note: Robert Sapolsky is a professor of biology, neurology and neurosurgery at Stanford University. He is also the author of “Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst.” The ...

"He makes me sick" is not usually a statement about the flu. It's a judgment about someone's behavior, a sentence delivered with complete disgust about one of our fellow human beings who doesn't know ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The other day, our President expressed a ...