Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the ongoing debate over the name of Washington’s pro football team, folks on both ...

Contempt has been fairly extensively researched as an emotion. Psychologist Paul Ekman defined it as a basic emotion along with joy, surprise, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. He took these seven ...

In their investigation of the contemptuous personality, social psychologist Roberta A. Schriber and colleagues found that contempt-proneness, despite involving a tendency to look down on others, is ...

Beware of the contemptuous heart! Certainly, you’ve noticed the increasing social unrest prevalent throughout the world these days. But rather than focus on world reactions to current events, I’d ...

New Delhi: A litigant can exercise his legal remedies but does not have the liberty to make contemptuous allegations and undermine a court's authority, Delhi High Court has said. The court made the ...