From dirty blowouts to spit-up and stomach bugs, parents quickly learn that unpleasant messes are part of everyday life.

"You’ll get used to it in no time. " So goes the reassurance given by many a grandparent to a son or daughter wincing at the prospect of that first nappy-change of a newborn.

Disgust is our guardian: Though most of us would rather not feel this unpleasant emotion, it helps us avoid disease and infection, new research suggests. Long before microscopes revealed unseen germs ...

New research carried out by psychologists at the University of Kent has shown for the first time that a decision to express disgust or anger depends on the motives a person seeks to communicate.

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 ...

Even the most secular people and societies usually have their behaviour shaped by religion. We can see its influence in behavioural codes that set out what is considered right and wrong. But we can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...