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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
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
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🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨
🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢
🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open!
📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health
🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!
🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢
🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open!
📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health
🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!
April 13, 2026 at 8:39 AM
🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨
🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢
🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open!
📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health
🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!
🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢
🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open!
📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health
🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!
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* PhD 2
Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮 & psychophysiology
with @csarabian.bsky.social , Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 20
📍 University of Montpellier 🇫🇷
—> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430
Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮 & psychophysiology
with @csarabian.bsky.social , Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 20
📍 University of Montpellier 🇫🇷
—> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430
PhD for Thesis No. 2 of the SENS-ALIM Nexus: ‘Between disgust and immunity: Avoidance strategies and vulnerability to risks associated with foodborne pathogens’
- work environment: Humans are constantly exposed to pathogens in their environment. In addition to physiological immunity, a behavioural immune system enables the detection of risks and helps to avoi...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
April 13, 2026 at 8:39 AM
* PhD 2
Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮 & psychophysiology
with @csarabian.bsky.social , Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 20
📍 University of Montpellier 🇫🇷
—> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430
Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮 & psychophysiology
with @csarabian.bsky.social , Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 20
📍 University of Montpellier 🇫🇷
—> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430
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* PhD 1
Study how sensory disease cues 🧟♂️ shape social avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮 & psychophysiology
with Camille Ferdenzi, Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 4
📍 CNRS / University of Montpellier 🇫🇷
--> emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
Study how sensory disease cues 🧟♂️ shape social avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮 & psychophysiology
with Camille Ferdenzi, Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 4
📍 CNRS / University of Montpellier 🇫🇷
--> emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - PhD Position in Behavioral Sciences (Psychology, Behavioral Ecology, and Psychoneuroimmunology): Perception of Disease Cues and Social Avoidance in Humans (M/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
April 13, 2026 at 8:39 AM
* PhD 1
Study how sensory disease cues 🧟♂️ shape social avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮 & psychophysiology
with Camille Ferdenzi, Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 4
📍 CNRS / University of Montpellier 🇫🇷
--> emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
Study how sensory disease cues 🧟♂️ shape social avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮 & psychophysiology
with Camille Ferdenzi, Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 4
📍 CNRS / University of Montpellier 🇫🇷
--> emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
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🚨 4-year PhD 🚨
Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology
with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20
📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷
--> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430
Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology
with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20
📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷
--> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430
PhD for Thesis No. 2 of the SENS-ALIM Nexus: ‘Between disgust and immunity: Avoidance strategies and vulnerability to risks associated with foodborne pathogens’
- work environment: Humans are constantly exposed to pathogens in their environment. In addition to physiological immunity, a behavioural immune system enables the detection of risks and helps to avoi...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
March 31, 2026 at 7:20 PM
🚨 4-year PhD 🚨
Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology
with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20
📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷
--> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430
Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology
with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20
📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷
--> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430
⚠️ 2-year Postdoc – Experimental Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪
PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓
More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪
PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓
More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental Psychology
Do you want to contribute to improving human health? We are currently looking for a driven and curious postdoctoral researcher who wants to join Mats J. Olsson’s research group in the Division of Ps
ki.varbi.com
March 31, 2026 at 11:58 AM
⚠️ 2-year Postdoc – Experimental Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪
PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓
More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪
PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓
More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you!
In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you!
In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260
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
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
Jorge Tobajas (University of Córdoba) shows how disgust can aid wildlife conservation. Through conditioned food aversion, animals learn to avoid risky or threatened resources, reducing conflict and protecting biodiversity—without lethal methods. #Conservation #WildlifeManagement #Sustainability
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Jorge Tobajas (University of Córdoba) shows how disgust can aid wildlife conservation. Through conditioned food aversion, animals learn to avoid risky or threatened resources, reducing conflict and protecting biodiversity—without lethal methods. #Conservation #WildlifeManagement #Sustainability
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
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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
#disgust #ethics #meat_aversion
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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
#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.
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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.
🔥 7 Flash Talks on Disgust & Pathogen Avoidance:
#disgust #pathogenavoidance #behavioralimmune #moralpsych #learning #meat
#disgust #pathogenavoidance #behavioralimmune #moralpsych #learning #meat
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
🔥 7 Flash Talks on Disgust & Pathogen Avoidance:
#disgust #pathogenavoidance #behavioralimmune #moralpsych #learning #meat
#disgust #pathogenavoidance #behavioralimmune #moralpsych #learning #meat
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
😡 Anger → direct + indirect aggression
🤢 Disgust → indirect punishment
Patterns replicate in Japan — stable functions despite cultural differences.
#disgust #emotion #crosscultural
December 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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
😡 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
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
December 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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
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
#disgust #crossculturalresearch
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
@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
#disgust #crossculturalresearch
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Surely a highlight of Paul Rozin's online keynote at the Disgust Without Borders conference, after an excellent review and comment on the research, was his extended poetic riff on Hamlet's soliloquy - applied to food! @disgust-nerds.bsky.social @iast.fr
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Surely a highlight of Paul Rozin's online keynote at the Disgust Without Borders conference, after an excellent review and comment on the research, was his extended poetic riff on Hamlet's soliloquy - applied to food! @disgust-nerds.bsky.social @iast.fr
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.
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.
December 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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.
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!
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!
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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!
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
Thanks again, Paul — we wish you could be here with us for these two days! @iast.fr
December 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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
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!
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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 🤯 !
@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 🤯 !
December 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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 🤯 !
@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 🤯 !