September 3, 2009 — Patients with disfiguring psoriasis appear to have altered brain responses to disgust, allowing them to cope with the social stigma of their illness by "screening out" others' ...

Micro-expressions that last less than a fraction of a second expose a person's true emotions and intent towards you.

Disgust began as a simple warning system in the gut. Three million years later, it’s running your moral compass too.

The COVID crisis throws into relief what happens when grief has—quite literally—nowhere to go. The evidence suggests that most people summon strengths that surpass their own expectations. We typically ...

Heights, crowds, dark places, open spaces, snakes, spiders and needles all have one thing in common–many people fear them pathologically, to the point of having a phobia. However, these phobias differ ...

A decision to express disgust or anger depends on the motives a person seeks to communicate, new research carried out by psychologists has shown for the first time. New research carried out by ...

One area of the brain appears to be responsible for recognizing facial expressions, a new study finds. Ohio State University researchers monitored the brain activity of 10 college students as they ...

Our reaction to disgusting things may be evolutionarily-derived. Flickr/Rainja, CC BY-NC-ND Feeling queasy? How about deceitful? New research shows feelings of disgust encourage unethical, ...