Becoming a parent can permanently dampen the brain’s disgust response, as exposure to bodily mess gradually rewires how ...

Disgust is an emotion to which I never gave much thought. It was just something that happened to me if I was "grossed out" by something. But after practicing psychotherapy for several years, disgust ...

Neuroscientists from the University of Bristol recently reported that repeated long-term exposure to their babies’ bodily ...

From diaper changes to nursing care, exposure to unpleasant substances is a daily reality for millions of people, but how ...

In what's called 'benign masochism,' some people find the feeling of disgust pleasurable. Ocskaymark/iStock via Getty Images. Halloween is a time to embrace all that is disgusting, from bloody slasher ...

Forget the conventional thinking that humans are complex creatures with a wide range of emotions. New research suggest we only have four. The widely held scientific assumption is that we have six ...

Engineers at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei province, have developed a breakthrough ...