WHAT AN AMAZING GROUP OF DISGUSTED PEOPLE! 😄
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr

Next up, Sylvie Borau (Toulouse Business School) on the expanding circle of moral disgust: from animal suffering to robot mistreatment. Disgust drives moral condemnation and engagement, but reasoning extends concern even to artificial beings. #MoralPsychology #Disgust #AnimalWelfare #AIethics

Let’s continue with the application session! Jared Piazza (Lancaster University) shows that while pathogen-related disgust can spark meat aversion, moral motivations often sustain it, leading to stronger commitments and fewer returns to meat eating.
#disgust #ethics #meat_aversion

Don’t fade now — this afternoon @iast.fr brings a standout final keynote: Cindy Kam (Vanderbilt) shows how disgust can also power politics. Disgust isn’t conservative or liberal, but opportunistic, pushing for protection across issues and sometimes even bridging partisan divides.

Lei Fan (Aarhus Univ.) shows across Western and East Asian samples a split in moral punishment:

😡 Anger → direct + indirect aggression
🤢 Disgust → indirect punishment

Patterns replicate in Japan — stable functions despite cultural differences.

#disgust #emotion #crosscultural

Wow — truly disgusting videos today! 🤢
Tom Kupfer (Nottingham Trent) shows, across 67 countries, a clear split in disgust:

🦠 Pathogen cues → oral–gastric
🪳 Ectoparasite cues → skin–surface

Despite varied emotion terms, same mechanisms worldwide.

#disgust #emotion #crosscultural

@joshtybur.bsky.social (VU Amsterdam) presents new work testing the universality of disgust across 36 societies and 30k+ participants. Pathogen, sexual & moral disgust show striking cross-cultural consistency! Fascinating dataset & big implications! @iast.fr

#disgust #crossculturalresearch

How does disgust shape what we buy?
Today’s first keynote by Philip Powell explored disgust’s dual role in consumer behaviour: as a barrier that blocks markets (from “ugly” produce to recycled materials) and as a facilitator that can drive attention, virality, and even more sustainable choices.

Excited for Day 2 of the Disgust Across Borders Conference @iast.fr !
Today we dive into disgust across cultures, the economics and politics of disgust, and its real-world applications.
Can’t wait to hear all of it!

Really honoured to have Prof. Paul Rozin giving our 2nd (online) keynote! Today he challenges us with a fundamental question: is disgust a single, unitary emotion?
Thanks again, Paul — we wish you could be here with us for these two days! @iast.fr

Wrapping up our 2nd session on pathogen disgust with 2 thought-provoking talks by Eva Landova on the emotional salience of evolutionary and modern disgust threats & Mats Lekander on expert versus laypeople judgment of visual cues of sickness. Spoiler: doctors are *not* better at detecting sickness!

Interested in disgust sensitivity and motherhood? 🤰👩‍🍼Talk to Daniela Dlouhá — or read her upcoming paper — on how disgust sensitivity changes from pregnancy to postpartum! @iast.fr

On to our 2nd session on pathogen disgust in humans!
@dalmaijer.bsky.social showed how the brain and stomach talk during disgust, revealing fast brain-to-gut signals, longer gut-to-brain feedback, and gastric rhythms acting as a “reservoir of caution” against contaminants 🤯 !

• @csarabian.bsky.social & Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social, on disgust and parasite-avoidance behaviours in primates.
Looking forward to the rest of the programme! Keep tuned!

What a fantastic 1st session on the origins of disgust across species! Huge thanks to our brilliant speakers:
• Martin Kavaliers, on pathogen avoidance in mice and snails
• Patricia Lopes, on preventive inflammatory responses to sick conspecifics in birds

We’re very excited to welcome all disgustologists to Toulouse in the coming days for our conference! Looking forward to inspiring talks, great discussions… and maybe a few disgust-inducing surprises 👀🦠