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You must have had some disgust. Whether it's food, vomit, feces, or something disgusting. You can also have a sense of disgust for certain things that other people may not feel disgust for. Have you ever thought why this is happening? Why can you be disgusted by something? How can there be disgust? Curious? Let's look at the following explanation.
What is disgust?
Disgust is a negative response to something you don't like, which you find repulsive. When you feel disgusted by something, it usually shows in the expression on your face. Thus, it may be very easy for you to tell whether the people around you are disgusted or not.
Humans use distinctive facial expressions to show disgust towards something. According to Professor Paul Ekman of the University of California, these are synonymous in different cultures around the world. Generally, you lift your upper lip and wrinkle your nose when you express disgust.
The most common triggers for disgust
Based on Dr. Valerie Curtis of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the 1990s, common things that can cause feelings of disgust are:
- Things that are excreted by the body, such as feces, vomiting, sweat, saliva, blood, pus, semen, mucus, mucus, and others
- Body parts, such as wounds, corpses
- Rotten food, especially rotten meat and fish
- Garbage
- Some living things, such as flies, maggots, fleas, worms, mice
- People who are sick, contaminated
This led Curtis to hypothesize that disgust was genetic. Programmed in the brain and imprinted on your DNA.
Why can we feel disgusted by something?
Everyone has an instinct to feel disgusted. This feeling of disgust comes naturally, it doesn't need to be studied, it just arises. Even small children can feel disgusted by something. This feeling of disgust depends on experience, socialization, personality, and context. These feelings are very complex and complicated emotions.
Disgust is regulated by the brain, so that humans can feel disgust, in contrast to other living things. An MRI scan shows that you use a special part of the brain when you feel disgust, namely the anterior insular cortex. Because it is regulated by your brain and mind, you can control your feelings of disgust. So you don't have to be disgusted if you don't want to feel that way.
You may have to half force yourself to stop being disgusted by something you have to do. For example, suppose you are disgusted by wounds on your feet, but you should clean them so they dry quickly. Like it or not, you have to put your disgust aside, get rid of your disgust, so you can clean your wound for your health. Over time, your feelings of disgust for something may disappear. You alone can control your thoughts about things.
Most of the time, your disgust for something has no reason or purpose. However, generally feeling disgust occurs when you have to avoid something you think is risky, such as a disease. But disgust can also prevent you from doing much, to expand your knowledge and your social life. In order to do that, you may have to get rid of the disgust. So, many fun things you can do.
