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Feb. 03, 2012
What Grosses You Out?
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| In That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, psychologist Rachel Herz discusses the origins of disgust--what she calls the 'instinct that's learned'--and why humans turn up their noses at smelly feet but devour expensive cheeses cultured with some of the very same stinky bacteria. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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Rachel Herz
Author, "That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion" (W.W. Norton, 2012)
Research Psychologist
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
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That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion
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