About
Would you eat a bug? How about fine-crafted chocolate — shaped like poo? Your answer depends on both your disgust at the prospect and whether you choose to act on that emotion, says political psychologist Cindy Kam. She dives into how the feeling of disgust — whether motivated by real or imagined contamination — can connect or divide us, from everyday decisions to political alliances.
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Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TEDxNashville
- Speaker
- Cindy Kam
- Year
- 2024
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Medicine and health, Psychology and the brain, Society and politics
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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