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Why do we find things disgusting?
There are some things - cockroaches, poo, wounds - that most of us find disgusting. But is disgust useful? Can our sense of disgust be misused? We ask an academic who describes herself as a ‘disgustologist’. Since record...
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Why do we find things disgusting? is an episode from The Big Idea by BBC. There are some things - cockroaches, poo, wounds - that most of us find disgusting. But is disgust useful? Can our sense of disgust be misused? We ask an academic who...
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Published Oct 10, 2020, 13:22 long, audio available.
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