Mucus. Puss. Maggots. Feces. Eating bats. Eating cows. Racism. In this episode, we discuss the benefits and dangers of disgust and tackle some tough questions like: Is anything objectively disgusting? Why are some people more easily disgusted than others? And... what's that smell?

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Further Reading:

• "Disgust" by Rozin, Haidt, & McCauley (2008)
• "The Moral Affiliations of Disgust: A Functional MRI Study" by Moll, et. al (2005)
• "The emotional dog and its rational tail" by Haidt (2001)
• "In bad taste: evidence for the oral origins of moral disgust" by Chapman et. al. (2009)
• "The makings of the magical mind: The nature of function of sympathetic magic" by Nemeroff & Rozin (2000)
• "The Child's Conception of Food" by Rozin et. al (1986)
• "Sex Differences in Disgust: Why Are Women More Easily Disgusted Than Men?" by Al-Shawaf, Lewis, & Buss (2017)
• "Feelings of Disgust and Disgust-Induced Avoidance Weaken following Induced Sexual Arousal in Women" by Borg and de Jong (2012)
• The Disgust Scale by Haidt, McCauley, & Rozin (last updated in 2012)
• "Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment" by Schnall et. al (2008)
• "Is that disgust I see? Political ideology and based visual attention" by 
  Oosterhoff & Ford (2018)
  • A more recent study that challenges the finding that conservatives are more easily disgusted than liberals: "Is Disgust a 'Conservative' Emotion?" by Elad-Strenger, Proch, & Kessler (2019)

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Music by Barrie Gledden, Kes Loy, and Richard Kimmings