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 ...

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 ...

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For psychologists who study it, disgust is one of the primal emotions that define — and explain — humanity.Credit...Maisie Cousins for The New York Times The Great Read For psychologists who study it, ...