Individuals experiencing anger, contempt and disgust are more likely to act and behave in a hostile manner toward those they disagree with, new research from San Francisco State University shows. Past ...

Disgust is an incredibly powerful negative emotion, capable of inducing vomiting, panic, and rage. The sound evolutionary reason for our experience of disgust is that it helped keep us alive—by making ...

Arthur Brooks sees society as suffering from contempt, “our habit of treating people who disagree with us...as worthless,” and argues instead for a culture of warm-heartedness. Although doing so can ...

Our relationships bring out a range of emotions, some positive and some negative. Clearly feeling and expressing positive emotions with others is likely to enhance our relationships. But what about ...

Carcass of Beef by French artist Chaim Soutine, c. 1925. Even in this stylized version, images of dead animals can elicit disgust. The prototypical odor of disgust is one of decay. Source: Wikimedia ...