Anxiety disorders have traditionally been conceptualized as reflecting the emotions of fear
and anxiety. A developing program of research demonstrates a relation between disgust …

The new synthesis about disgust is that it is a system that evolved to motivate infectious
disease avoidance. There are vital practical and intellectual reasons why we need to …

In the era of 'metaverse', virtual environments are gaining popularity among new multimedia
contents and are also recognized as a valuable means to deliver emotional content. This is …

Interest in and research on disgust has surged over the past few decades. The field,
however, still lacks a coherent theoretical framework for understanding the evolved function …

Pandemic illnesses, such as the H1N1 influenza (swine flu) are often highly publicized in the
mass media and can be associated with high levels of anxiety and compensatory behavior …

Recent research has highlighted the important role of emotion in moral judgment and
decision making (Greene, Sommerville, Nystrom, Darley, & Cohen, 2001; Haidt, 2001). What …

In 2012, four days before Valentine's Day, I was contacted by a journalist who worked for an
international newspaper. He was writing an article 'on linguistic differences between men …

What is the function of disgust? Whereas traditional models have suggested that disgust
serves to protect the self or neutralize reminders of our animal nature, an evolutionary …

Abstract For North Americans, elicitors of disgust come from nine domains: food, body
products, animals, sexual behaviors, contact with death or corpses, violations of the exterior …

The threat of a United States (US) Zika virus pandemic during 2015–2016 was associated
with public anxiety. Such threats represent opportunities to examine hypotheses about …