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The Big Idea: Why do we find things disgusting?

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Why do we find things disgusting?

10/10/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - The Big Idea, Why do we find things disgusting?

Meet a ‘disgustologist’ who has been uncovering answers to our uneasy feelings

Meet a ‘disgustologist’ who has been uncovering answers to our uneasy feelings.

There are some things 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’.

Image: A disgusted expression (Credit: Getty Images)

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