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

Carcass of Beef by French artist Chaim Soutine, c. 1925. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain. “There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage… there would be meat that had ...

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 ...