Interpersonal Disgust
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Recent papers in Interpersonal Disgust
An overview of current theories (including mine) on sensory and interpersonal disgust. This is the first and only paper that I know of that attempts to explain why humans are the only species known to experience disgust.
People who are more avoidant of pathogens are more politically conservative, as are nations with greater parasite stress. In the current research, we test two prominent hypotheses that have been proposed as explanations for these... more
Disgust involves both automatic and conscious evaluative processing, so using a combination of explicit and implicit disgust measures, we sought to predict higher conception risk by the measurement of the perceptions toward disgusting... more
באין מוסדות מוסמכים ומוכרים של אכיפה וענישה נעשה החרם לאמצעי המרכזי המשמר את סמכותם של חכמים. הנידוי והחרם לא היו רק כלים להטלת מוראם של פרנסי הציבור אלא גם מילאו תפקיד חשוב בשמירה על יציבות חברתית ועל אורחות חיים תקינים המאפשרים את החיים... more
Diverse art practices have, since time immemorial, sought to establish a visceral link with the viewer’s insides in order to problematise order and disorder, normativity and aberration, totem and taboo, as even a cursory glance at... more