Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An online test that aims to tell you your level of tolerance for food-related triggers that can cause disgust has gone viral.

An online quiz reveals an awful lot about how we think about other people's food habits. Why It's OK to Eat Moldy Blue Cheese There are reasons for some of this, primarily that it was hammered into me ...

Halloween is a time to embrace all that is disgusting, from bloody slasher films to haunted houses full of fake guts and gore. But the attraction to stuff that grosses us out goes beyond this annual ...

A new study says feelings of disgust is actually a biological response that helps you stay healthy by keeping you far away from harmful pathogens in rotten food, diseased bugs, and more. “Disgust ...

Of no small interest to Darwin and, after him, to Freud and all those working in his wide cultural shadow, disgust as a topic of theoretical inquiry would go into retreat for much of the latter part ...

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 ...

Of the seven-or-so universal emotions, two are aversive. Both fear and disgust are commonly evoked by insects. And while much of what we know about the workings of fear comes from the study of ...

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, ...

In a new study published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, more than 2,500 people (with an average age of 28, and 66 percent female) completed an online survey including ...