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Join the Disgustology community! A space for research on disgust across psychology, politics, biology & related fields. Created after Disgust Across Borders 2025 to share studies, build collaborations & connect perspectives across species.
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WHAT AN AMAZING GROUP OF DISGUSTED PEOPLE! 😄
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
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Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you!
In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you!
In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
WHAT AN AMAZING GROUP OF DISGUSTED PEOPLE! 😄
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
WHAT AN AMAZING GROUP OF DISGUSTED PEOPLE! 😄
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
Jorge Tobajas (University of Córdoba) shows how disgust can aid wildlife conservation. Through conditioned food aversion, animals learn to avoid risky or threatened resources, reducing conflict and protecting biodiversity—without lethal methods. #Conservation #WildlifeManagement #Sustainability
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Jorge Tobajas (University of Córdoba) shows how disgust can aid wildlife conservation. Through conditioned food aversion, animals learn to avoid risky or threatened resources, reducing conflict and protecting biodiversity—without lethal methods. #Conservation #WildlifeManagement #Sustainability
Next up, Sylvie Borau (Toulouse Business School) on the expanding circle of moral disgust: from animal suffering to robot mistreatment. Disgust drives moral condemnation and engagement, but reasoning extends concern even to artificial beings. #MoralPsychology #Disgust #AnimalWelfare #AIethics
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Next up, Sylvie Borau (Toulouse Business School) on the expanding circle of moral disgust: from animal suffering to robot mistreatment. Disgust drives moral condemnation and engagement, but reasoning extends concern even to artificial beings. #MoralPsychology #Disgust #AnimalWelfare #AIethics
Let’s continue with the application session! Jared Piazza (Lancaster University) shows that while pathogen-related disgust can spark meat aversion, moral motivations often sustain it, leading to stronger commitments and fewer returns to meat eating.
#disgust #ethics #meat_aversion
#disgust #ethics #meat_aversion
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Let’s continue with the application session! Jared Piazza (Lancaster University) shows that while pathogen-related disgust can spark meat aversion, moral motivations often sustain it, leading to stronger commitments and fewer returns to meat eating.
#disgust #ethics #meat_aversion
#disgust #ethics #meat_aversion
Don’t fade now — this afternoon @iast.fr brings a standout final keynote: Cindy Kam (Vanderbilt) shows how disgust can also power politics. Disgust isn’t conservative or liberal, but opportunistic, pushing for protection across issues and sometimes even bridging partisan divides.
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Don’t fade now — this afternoon @iast.fr brings a standout final keynote: Cindy Kam (Vanderbilt) shows how disgust can also power politics. Disgust isn’t conservative or liberal, but opportunistic, pushing for protection across issues and sometimes even bridging partisan divides.
🔥 7 Flash Talks on Disgust & Pathogen Avoidance:
#disgust #pathogenavoidance #behavioralimmune #moralpsych #learning #meat
#disgust #pathogenavoidance #behavioralimmune #moralpsych #learning #meat
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
🔥 7 Flash Talks on Disgust & Pathogen Avoidance:
#disgust #pathogenavoidance #behavioralimmune #moralpsych #learning #meat
#disgust #pathogenavoidance #behavioralimmune #moralpsych #learning #meat
Lei Fan (Aarhus Univ.) shows across Western and East Asian samples a split in moral punishment:
😡 Anger → direct + indirect aggression
🤢 Disgust → indirect punishment
Patterns replicate in Japan — stable functions despite cultural differences.
#disgust #emotion #crosscultural
😡 Anger → direct + indirect aggression
🤢 Disgust → indirect punishment
Patterns replicate in Japan — stable functions despite cultural differences.
#disgust #emotion #crosscultural
December 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Lei Fan (Aarhus Univ.) shows across Western and East Asian samples a split in moral punishment:
😡 Anger → direct + indirect aggression
🤢 Disgust → indirect punishment
Patterns replicate in Japan — stable functions despite cultural differences.
#disgust #emotion #crosscultural
😡 Anger → direct + indirect aggression
🤢 Disgust → indirect punishment
Patterns replicate in Japan — stable functions despite cultural differences.
#disgust #emotion #crosscultural
Wow — truly disgusting videos today! 🤢
Tom Kupfer (Nottingham Trent) shows, across 67 countries, a clear split in disgust:
🦠 Pathogen cues → oral–gastric
🪳 Ectoparasite cues → skin–surface
Despite varied emotion terms, same mechanisms worldwide.
#disgust #emotion #crosscultural
Tom Kupfer (Nottingham Trent) shows, across 67 countries, a clear split in disgust:
🦠 Pathogen cues → oral–gastric
🪳 Ectoparasite cues → skin–surface
Despite varied emotion terms, same mechanisms worldwide.
#disgust #emotion #crosscultural
December 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Wow — truly disgusting videos today! 🤢
Tom Kupfer (Nottingham Trent) shows, across 67 countries, a clear split in disgust:
🦠 Pathogen cues → oral–gastric
🪳 Ectoparasite cues → skin–surface
Despite varied emotion terms, same mechanisms worldwide.
#disgust #emotion #crosscultural
Tom Kupfer (Nottingham Trent) shows, across 67 countries, a clear split in disgust:
🦠 Pathogen cues → oral–gastric
🪳 Ectoparasite cues → skin–surface
Despite varied emotion terms, same mechanisms worldwide.
#disgust #emotion #crosscultural
@joshtybur.bsky.social (VU Amsterdam) presents new work testing the universality of disgust across 36 societies and 30k+ participants. Pathogen, sexual & moral disgust show striking cross-cultural consistency! Fascinating dataset & big implications! @iast.fr
#disgust #crossculturalresearch
#disgust #crossculturalresearch
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
@joshtybur.bsky.social (VU Amsterdam) presents new work testing the universality of disgust across 36 societies and 30k+ participants. Pathogen, sexual & moral disgust show striking cross-cultural consistency! Fascinating dataset & big implications! @iast.fr
#disgust #crossculturalresearch
#disgust #crossculturalresearch
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Surely a highlight of Paul Rozin's online keynote at the Disgust Without Borders conference, after an excellent review and comment on the research, was his extended poetic riff on Hamlet's soliloquy - applied to food! @disgust-nerds.bsky.social @iast.fr
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Surely a highlight of Paul Rozin's online keynote at the Disgust Without Borders conference, after an excellent review and comment on the research, was his extended poetic riff on Hamlet's soliloquy - applied to food! @disgust-nerds.bsky.social @iast.fr
How does disgust shape what we buy?
Today’s first keynote by Philip Powell explored disgust’s dual role in consumer behaviour: as a barrier that blocks markets (from “ugly” produce to recycled materials) and as a facilitator that can drive attention, virality, and even more sustainable choices.
Today’s first keynote by Philip Powell explored disgust’s dual role in consumer behaviour: as a barrier that blocks markets (from “ugly” produce to recycled materials) and as a facilitator that can drive attention, virality, and even more sustainable choices.
December 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
How does disgust shape what we buy?
Today’s first keynote by Philip Powell explored disgust’s dual role in consumer behaviour: as a barrier that blocks markets (from “ugly” produce to recycled materials) and as a facilitator that can drive attention, virality, and even more sustainable choices.
Today’s first keynote by Philip Powell explored disgust’s dual role in consumer behaviour: as a barrier that blocks markets (from “ugly” produce to recycled materials) and as a facilitator that can drive attention, virality, and even more sustainable choices.
Excited for Day 2 of the Disgust Across Borders Conference @iast.fr !
Today we dive into disgust across cultures, the economics and politics of disgust, and its real-world applications.
Can’t wait to hear all of it!
Today we dive into disgust across cultures, the economics and politics of disgust, and its real-world applications.
Can’t wait to hear all of it!
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Excited for Day 2 of the Disgust Across Borders Conference @iast.fr !
Today we dive into disgust across cultures, the economics and politics of disgust, and its real-world applications.
Can’t wait to hear all of it!
Today we dive into disgust across cultures, the economics and politics of disgust, and its real-world applications.
Can’t wait to hear all of it!
Really honoured to have Prof. Paul Rozin giving our 2nd (online) keynote! Today he challenges us with a fundamental question: is disgust a single, unitary emotion?
Thanks again, Paul — we wish you could be here with us for these two days! @iast.fr
Thanks again, Paul — we wish you could be here with us for these two days! @iast.fr
December 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Really honoured to have Prof. Paul Rozin giving our 2nd (online) keynote! Today he challenges us with a fundamental question: is disgust a single, unitary emotion?
Thanks again, Paul — we wish you could be here with us for these two days! @iast.fr
Thanks again, Paul — we wish you could be here with us for these two days! @iast.fr
Wrapping up our 2nd session on pathogen disgust with 2 thought-provoking talks by Eva Landova on the emotional salience of evolutionary and modern disgust threats & Mats Lekander on expert versus laypeople judgment of visual cues of sickness. Spoiler: doctors are *not* better at detecting sickness!
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Wrapping up our 2nd session on pathogen disgust with 2 thought-provoking talks by Eva Landova on the emotional salience of evolutionary and modern disgust threats & Mats Lekander on expert versus laypeople judgment of visual cues of sickness. Spoiler: doctors are *not* better at detecting sickness!
Interested in disgust sensitivity and motherhood? 🤰👩🍼Talk to Daniela Dlouhá — or read her upcoming paper — on how disgust sensitivity changes from pregnancy to postpartum! @iast.fr
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Interested in disgust sensitivity and motherhood? 🤰👩🍼Talk to Daniela Dlouhá — or read her upcoming paper — on how disgust sensitivity changes from pregnancy to postpartum! @iast.fr
On to our 2nd session on pathogen disgust in humans!
@dalmaijer.bsky.social showed how the brain and stomach talk during disgust, revealing fast brain-to-gut signals, longer gut-to-brain feedback, and gastric rhythms acting as a “reservoir of caution” against contaminants 🤯 !
@dalmaijer.bsky.social showed how the brain and stomach talk during disgust, revealing fast brain-to-gut signals, longer gut-to-brain feedback, and gastric rhythms acting as a “reservoir of caution” against contaminants 🤯 !
December 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
On to our 2nd session on pathogen disgust in humans!
@dalmaijer.bsky.social showed how the brain and stomach talk during disgust, revealing fast brain-to-gut signals, longer gut-to-brain feedback, and gastric rhythms acting as a “reservoir of caution” against contaminants 🤯 !
@dalmaijer.bsky.social showed how the brain and stomach talk during disgust, revealing fast brain-to-gut signals, longer gut-to-brain feedback, and gastric rhythms acting as a “reservoir of caution” against contaminants 🤯 !
What a fantastic 1st session on the origins of disgust across species! Huge thanks to our brilliant speakers:
• Martin Kavaliers, on pathogen avoidance in mice and snails
• Patricia Lopes, on preventive inflammatory responses to sick conspecifics in birds
• Martin Kavaliers, on pathogen avoidance in mice and snails
• Patricia Lopes, on preventive inflammatory responses to sick conspecifics in birds
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
What a fantastic 1st session on the origins of disgust across species! Huge thanks to our brilliant speakers:
• Martin Kavaliers, on pathogen avoidance in mice and snails
• Patricia Lopes, on preventive inflammatory responses to sick conspecifics in birds
• Martin Kavaliers, on pathogen avoidance in mice and snails
• Patricia Lopes, on preventive inflammatory responses to sick conspecifics in birds
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A fantastic first plenary talk in « Disgust across borders » @disgust-nerds.bsky.social by Caroline Amoroso on the evolution of parasite avoidance using c. elegans as a model species @iast.fr
December 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A fantastic first plenary talk in « Disgust across borders » @disgust-nerds.bsky.social by Caroline Amoroso on the evolution of parasite avoidance using c. elegans as a model species @iast.fr
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The perceived embodiment of proper disgust is entirely different than that of “political disgust”, which actually closely overlaps with anger. Excellently timed preprint, with @disgust-nerds.bsky.social starting tomorrow. Hope someone brings this up in the “Is moral disgust really disgust?” debate!
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The perceived embodiment of proper disgust is entirely different than that of “political disgust”, which actually closely overlaps with anger. Excellently timed preprint, with @disgust-nerds.bsky.social starting tomorrow. Hope someone brings this up in the “Is moral disgust really disgust?” debate!
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The conference Disgust Across Borders is approaching! 😄
On December 4th and 5th, IAST and @tse-fr.eu will host the conference on Disgust across Borders: Multidisciplinary Perspectives to explore the basic yet multifaceted emotion of disgust.
📍 Auditorium 3 Jean-Jacques Laffont, TSE Building
On December 4th and 5th, IAST and @tse-fr.eu will host the conference on Disgust across Borders: Multidisciplinary Perspectives to explore the basic yet multifaceted emotion of disgust.
📍 Auditorium 3 Jean-Jacques Laffont, TSE Building
December 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The conference Disgust Across Borders is approaching! 😄
On December 4th and 5th, IAST and @tse-fr.eu will host the conference on Disgust across Borders: Multidisciplinary Perspectives to explore the basic yet multifaceted emotion of disgust.
📍 Auditorium 3 Jean-Jacques Laffont, TSE Building
On December 4th and 5th, IAST and @tse-fr.eu will host the conference on Disgust across Borders: Multidisciplinary Perspectives to explore the basic yet multifaceted emotion of disgust.
📍 Auditorium 3 Jean-Jacques Laffont, TSE Building
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🦠 Hi disgust nerds! Our 1st keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Caroline Amoroso (@cr-amo.bsky.social, Univ. of Virginia).
She’ll dive into evolution & ecology of infection avoidance — how organisms detect, avoid, and resist pathogens.
tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn
📍 Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 More 🔑🗒️ soon!
She’ll dive into evolution & ecology of infection avoidance — how organisms detect, avoid, and resist pathogens.
tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn
📍 Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 More 🔑🗒️ soon!
October 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🦠 Hi disgust nerds! Our 1st keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Caroline Amoroso (@cr-amo.bsky.social, Univ. of Virginia).
She’ll dive into evolution & ecology of infection avoidance — how organisms detect, avoid, and resist pathogens.
tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn
📍 Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 More 🔑🗒️ soon!
She’ll dive into evolution & ecology of infection avoidance — how organisms detect, avoid, and resist pathogens.
tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn
📍 Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 More 🔑🗒️ soon!
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We're psyched to discuss all things disgust in our upcoming conference on Disgust Across Borders! 🦠
Our 2nd (online) keynote is Paul Rozin who will address a fundamental question in Disgustology:
"Is disgust a unitary emotion?"
📍 @iast.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 Stay tuned at tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!
Our 2nd (online) keynote is Paul Rozin who will address a fundamental question in Disgustology:
"Is disgust a unitary emotion?"
📍 @iast.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 Stay tuned at tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We're psyched to discuss all things disgust in our upcoming conference on Disgust Across Borders! 🦠
Our 2nd (online) keynote is Paul Rozin who will address a fundamental question in Disgustology:
"Is disgust a unitary emotion?"
📍 @iast.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 Stay tuned at tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!
Our 2nd (online) keynote is Paul Rozin who will address a fundamental question in Disgustology:
"Is disgust a unitary emotion?"
📍 @iast.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 Stay tuned at tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!
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How can we use disgust to make more sustainable choices?
Our 3rd keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social with "Putting the gross in domestic product: Disgust and consumer behaviour"
📍 @iast.fr
Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
🎉 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!
Our 3rd keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social with "Putting the gross in domestic product: Disgust and consumer behaviour"
📍 @iast.fr
Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
🎉 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
How can we use disgust to make more sustainable choices?
Our 3rd keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social with "Putting the gross in domestic product: Disgust and consumer behaviour"
📍 @iast.fr
Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
🎉 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!
Our 3rd keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social with "Putting the gross in domestic product: Disgust and consumer behaviour"
📍 @iast.fr
Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
🎉 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!
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What role does disgust play in politics?
Our final keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Cindy Kam
@vanderbilt.edu presenting "The Politics of Disgust".
Want a taste? Her TED Talk is here: tinyurl.com/62ynau6s
📍@iast, Toulouse 🇫🇷
🗓️ Dec 4–5
📖 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn
Our final keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Cindy Kam
@vanderbilt.edu presenting "The Politics of Disgust".
Want a taste? Her TED Talk is here: tinyurl.com/62ynau6s
📍@iast, Toulouse 🇫🇷
🗓️ Dec 4–5
📖 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
What role does disgust play in politics?
Our final keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Cindy Kam
@vanderbilt.edu presenting "The Politics of Disgust".
Want a taste? Her TED Talk is here: tinyurl.com/62ynau6s
📍@iast, Toulouse 🇫🇷
🗓️ Dec 4–5
📖 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn
Our final keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Cindy Kam
@vanderbilt.edu presenting "The Politics of Disgust".
Want a taste? Her TED Talk is here: tinyurl.com/62ynau6s
📍@iast, Toulouse 🇫🇷
🗓️ Dec 4–5
📖 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn