Valerie Curtis is fascinated by feces. And by vomit, pus, urine, maggots and putrid flesh. It is not the oozing, reeking substances themselves that play on her mind, but our response to them and what ...

Disgust may play a role in a sexual dysfunction that often renders penetration impossible, new research finds, perhaps revealing a psychological component to physical sexual complaints. Specifically, ...

A team of psychologists at Macquarie University in Australia, has found, via survey responses that feelings of disgust tend to be related more to proximal senses than distal senses. In their study, ...

From an evolutionary standpoint, experiencing the intense, visceral sense of revulsion that comes with disgust presumably helps us to avoid contaminants that can make us sick or even kill us. But new ...

Women experience disgust more frequently than men due to fundamental evolutionary distinctions, a new study has found. Also, researchers have found that though the feeling of disgust can make us feel ...

Stirring soup with a fly swatter sounds disgusting, but why do our brains think so? Just in time for Halloween, teens are invited to get grossed out at an upcoming Teen Science Café at CU Boulder that ...

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 ...

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 ...