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 ...

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 revolting, ...

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 ...

Disgust was initially considered a "motivational system" that evolved to detect pathogens (Kavaliers et al, 2018). It was an "emotion of regulation" governing incorporation and expulsion (Irish). Paul ...