The Mind Report - Paul Bloom and David Pizarro on the Politics of Disgust

A cool new discussion the politics of disgust from Paul Bloom and David Pizarro.

The Mind Report

Paul Bloom (Yale University) and David Pizarro (Cornell University)

On The Mind Report, Paul talks to David about his recent TED talk about the politics of disgust. Paul asks David for a theory of why we connect repugnance and wrongness, and they argue about whether we pass moral judgment on a baby with a dirty diaper. Both Paul and David agree that disgust is not a good guide to morality. They next consider the dismissal of reason as a trend in academic psychology. Paul and David close by explaining how the lessons of social psychology can help with everyday life.

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Recorded: Nov 21   Posted: Nov 24, 2012

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Links Mentioned

• David Pizarro's TED talk on disgust
• Paul Rozin and Jon Haight's disgust scale (need to register first)
• Richard Dawkins's documentary, "Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life"
• Reason Magazine's interview with Martha Nussbaum
• Martha Nussbaum's book, "From Disgust to Humanity"
• "The Wisdom of Repugnance" by Leon Kass
• Joshua Greene's diavlog with Joshua Knobe
• Lee Jussim's book, "Social Perception and Social Reality"

 

Brain Science Podcast - Disgust with Rachel Herz (BSP 86) w/ Ginger Campbell, MD

An interesting episode of the Brain Science Podcast from Dr. Ginger Campbell. She speaks with Rachel Herz this week on the topic of disgust - she is the author of That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion.

By the way, Dr. Campbell's new book (Kindle only, $2.99) is now available at Amazon: Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty (Brain Talk: Conversations with Neuroscientists).

Disgust with Rachel Herz (BSP 86)

Ginger Campbell, MD

 

Disgust is an universal emotion, but unlike emotions like fear and anger, disgust must be learned. This is the main conclusion of Dr. Rachel Herz's latest book That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion. In a recent interview (BSP 86) Dr. Herz told me why she spent the last several years studying this rather unusual subject. We also discussed what the study of disgust can tell us about how our brains process emotion.

This is Dr. Herz's second visit to the Brain Science Podcast. Back in BSP 34 we talked about her first book The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell.

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