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Shiu Wong

Postdoctoral Fellow, Concordia University

Shiu Wong is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychology at Concordia University in Montreal and a clinical psychologist. He lives in Sydney.

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Written by Shiu Wong

Photo of rubbish piled against a wall with graffiti reading “La Vita è Bella” on a city street.

Difficult emotions

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You can train yourself to find disgusting things less gross

Disgust protects you, but it can also keep you at arm’s length from others. You can learn to lessen disgust’s false alarms

by Shiu Wong