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A Filthy First — The Six Common Types of Disgust That Protect Us From Disease Revealed

  • June 05, 2018

Scientists have coupled certain infectious diseases with six types of emotions that nature may have created to help us avoid the health conditions that trigger these feelings, specifically various levels of disgust. From risky sexual behavior to rotting food, unhygienic people, open wounds and pus, to defecation in public and listening to sneezes, each condtion conjures up an emotional disgust and avoidance reaction that, through the ages, may have helped contain the spread of infectious...