Speechification

I’ve always found the sense of disgust to be one of the most bizarre and intriguing human emotions. After all, we’re the only species to develop an instinct for the revolting, and it has become a crucial part of the way we develop socially.

Luckily, Radio 4 science strand Frontiers had a piece on a couple of weeks ago tracking different pieces of research into disgust (here’s the MP3). Things got really interesting when the show started to go beyond measuring disgust and explored how our morals 0- and perhaps even political tendencies - are defined by it.

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