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There are so many words in the English language, but one, in particular, has been labeled the
most disgusting.
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The word moist has become widely used as a term to describe something gross.
Think about it, moist potato, moist pasta, it makes anything its attached to sound unappetizing.
Not just that but people have a general disdain for the word and scientists think they know
why.
Paul H. Thibodeau from Leiden University in the Netherlands recently published a study
called A Moist Crevice for Word Aversion In Semantics Not Sounds.
The study explored why exactly we have such a dislike for the word moist in particular.
Its a scientific exploration into the word aversion by comparing it to other words like
hoist, foist, mist or even most to see if they too carry the same version.
In order to do this participants were asked to look at words with a very similar meaning
to the word moist, so words such as damp and wet.
Plus other words that usually make you feel disgusted, things such as the phlegm or vomit
and then finally words that phonetically were like moist, so hoist or foist as I mentioned
before.
The second and third experiments done for the study then sought to understand and track
the underlying psychological process by using a series of free association and surprise
recall tests to find out why we dislike the word.
For the fourth and fifth experiments of the study, the researchers wanted to induce an
aversion to the word moist which would help them uncover whether or not the disgust comes
from social pressure or a conscious deliberation.
They needed to do this part, especially because one of their participants in the second experiment
admitted that they didnt know whether or not the word moist was aversive to them naturally
or because other people pointed out that it bothered them.
Scientists discovered that it has nothing to do with the sound of the word that makes
us cringe, but rather its widely disliked associations that our mind brings up when
hearing it.
Another interesting tidbit that they stumbled upon while conducting these studies was that
people who were the most averse to the word tended to be younger, more educated and more
neurotic people, with more of those leaning in the female rather than male category.
To test the reasoning for females disliking the word over males, people magazine did a
short video of attractive men saying the word moist.
In reality, this probably just evened the numbers of men and women collectively hating
the word.
Jason Riggle a professor in the department of linguistics at the University of Chicago
told Slate that word aversions are very similar to phobias, giving off the same physiological
reactions as well as psychological.
He said - The words evoke nausea and disgust rather than, say, annoyance or moral outrage.
And the disgust response is triggered because the word evokes a highly specific and somewhat
unusual association with imagery or a scenario that people would typically find disgusting,
but dont typically associate with the word.- According to the research nearly 20 percent
of the population truly hate this word, but as the research tells its not the word itself,
but our own brains association to that word.
We want to hear your thoughts on this story though, which word disgusts you the most and
why, let us know down in the comments below.
With that lets move on to some of your comments from the video titled - Man searches through
feces after accidentally swallowing airpod
George says - I know you explain but HOW DO YOU SWALLOW SOMETHING THATS MEANT TO BE IN
YOUR EAR?﻿ -Trust me I was just as baffled as you were.
How deep is your REM sleep that youre laying on your side and the airpod comes sliding
out of your ear into your mouth.
Yet instead of waking up from the feeling of something stroking your cheek, you just
eat whatever lands in your mouth.
Disgusting, thats all I have to say about that.
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a Russian Spy.
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I hope it speaks too - In Russia, all beluga whales have telescope coming from blowhole.
Abbie 12 says - I was watching a sad video and then I see this and I cant stop laughing
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Soar and Gacha Life says - I think the man thought they were actually apples﻿
-Imagine he says he was dreaming about eating apples and thats why he didnt wake up
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