Carcass of Beef by French artist Chaim Soutine, c. 1925. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain. “There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage… there would be meat that had ...

From nappy changes to nursing care, exposure to unpleasant substances is a daily reality for millions of people but how does the brain adapt? New research from neuroscientists at the University of ...

I must have been around 6 years old. We lived in Kasaragod, a coastal city in Kerala, India, at the time. I was playing Tennikoit with one of my classmates outside my house. At one point, I missed ...

However, less robust results were found for expressions of disgust and happiness. With the support of the BIAL Foundation, João Marques-Teixeira and collaborators carried out a study using a sample of ...

A new study by a team of Finnish researchers recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS) analyzes where we feel emotions in our bodies. Through ...

Every person has both utilitarian (consequentialist) and Kantian (duty- or rule-based) moral intuitions, which are activated in different situations in different ways. The field of Moral Psychology ...

Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a ...

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 ...