Disgust gets a roller-coaster ride in a soon-to-be-published study (which you can download a full copy of now!). The study is: “The Meaning of Disgust: A Refutation,” Nina Strohminger, Emotion Review, in press 2013. The author, at Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, begins the paper with this sentence: “In disgust research, there is shit, […]
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Disgusting Slime [update & erratum]
An Improbable note for August 19th, 2011 was related to Exploring disgust-related tactile processes. At the time, we had not been able to discover the exact nature of the ‘disgusting’ material used in the experiment. We are now in a position to reveal the recipe for the disgusting dough-like substance – thanks to a full […]
Exploring disgust-related tactile processes
Which are more disgusting to touch – dry powders or slimy gels? A team of investigators from the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami set up a series of experiments to find out – bearing in mind that, until now, touch-related disgust responses have been largely overlooked in the scholarly literature. Participants touched […]
See that hair
Lisa Wade chose these images — one you may find beautiful, the other disgusting — to illustrate a psychological notion. She writes: “Hair in the drain, like dirt in the house, is out-of-place. It doesn’t belong there. In both cases, our reaction is disgust. Hair on the head, in contrast, is beautiful and becoming.”
McGraw & Warren, humor zeroing
Marketing researchers zero in, ever further, on understanding how people react to theoretically humorous stimuli. Investigator Dan Goldstein alerts us to a new study which says: [In one experiment] participants read one of two versions of a scenario adapted from Haidt et al. (1993) as part of an ostensibly unrelated experiment. Participants either read about […]
Ha Ha Yecchhhh Ha Ha
“Despite the possibility of mixed feelings of disgust and amusement hardly anything is known about the relationship between these emotions.” Prompting researchers from Western Illinois University and the University of Toronto to investigate – and in so doing constructing what maybe the only formal psychology study to have centred around the work of transgressive cult […]