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Feeling Disgust May Enhance Our Ability To Detect Impurities
December 10, 2012 by NewsBot
Disgust - it's an emotion we experience when we encounter things that are dirty, impure, or otherwise contaminated. From an evolutionary standpoint, experiencing the intense, visceral sense of revulsion that comes with disgust presumably helps us to avoid contaminants that can make us sick or even kill us...