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Disgust is an emotion to which I never gave much thought. It was just something that happened to me if I was "grossed out" by something. But after practicing psychotherapy for several years, disgust ...

Conventional wisdom and a litany of past research suggest that women have higher emotional intelligence than men. But is this really the case? New research published in the academic journal Emotion ...

In what's called 'benign masochism,' some people find the feeling of disgust pleasurable. Ocskaymark/iStock via Getty Images. Halloween is a time to embrace all that is disgusting, from bloody slasher ...

Forget the conventional thinking that humans are complex creatures with a wide range of emotions. New research suggest we only have four. The widely held scientific assumption is that we have six ...