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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conventional wisdom and a litany of past research suggest that women have higher emotional intelligence than men. But is this really the case? New research published in the academic journal Emotion ...