Now firmly cemented in the dating lexicon and pop culture, the ick is a term which describes the phenomenon of getting a ...

A new study looked at what triggers 'the ick' — the disgust a person feels towards someone they used to find attractive Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...

Languages: English. Psychologists may have identified the top trigger of "the ick" for women—and it's a tie between saying annoying things and being misogynistic. The researchers, from the Azusa ...

It’s the month of love and while some people are deep in Valentine’s Day bliss others are battling a far less romantic reality - the dreaded ick. According to Google Trends, searches for ...

The ick, the researchers suggest, is likely tied to something much deeper than what initially seems obvious—the way a person combs their hair, for example, or how they look in shorts.

There's a name for the sudden disgust you feel toward someone you once found attractive based on something they do: "the ick." And according to a new study, causes of "the ick" may be split along ...