For example, some folks have reported fantasizing about or performing a sex act that triggered feelings of disgust while simultaneously turning them on. To some, this might sound paradoxical.

There's an idea in psychology that all emotions, from fear to disgust, were evolutionarily advantageous traits. But is the ick really serving us now? One theory posits that disgust evolved to ...

(Read why humans are hardwired to feel disgust.) Cécile Sarabian, a cognitive ecologist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France, goes a step further: She suggests that the ...

Halloween is a time to embrace all things 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 ...

Disgust is one of the six basic human emotions, along with happiness, sadness, fear, anger, and surprise. Disgust typically arises when a person perceives a sensory stimulus or situation as ...