Disgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and
even nausea. Yet paradoxically, disgusting objects can sometimes exert a grisly allure, and�…

Disgust has a strong claim to be a distinctively human emotion. But what is it to be
disgusting? What unifies the class of disgusting things? Colin McGinn sets out to analyze the�…

A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a
contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining the appeal of artworks�…

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We define aesthetic emotions as emotions that underlie the evaluative assessment of
artworks. They are separated from the wider class of art-elicited emotions. Aesthetic�…

Psychological aesthetics, for the most part, is concerned with people's feelings of pleasure in
response to art. The study of mild positive feelings will always be important to psychological�…

Imagine a disgusting experience. Now think about your response. What was it about the
moment that made you turn your head, that led your lip to curl and nose to wrinkle? Disgust�…

Disgust, the emotion of rotting carcasses and slimy animalitos, finds itself at the center of
several critical questions about human culture and cognition. This article summarizes recent�…

Kolnai made a breakthrough in the phenomenology of aversion when he showed the"
double intentionality" of emotions like fear, focusing on both the object of fear and the�…

Is there a fundamental difference between the kinds of emotional responses we seek from
art and those we seek from life? Many of the most popular genres of narrative art are�…