Journal
PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN
Volume 34, Issue 8, Pages 1096-1109Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0146167208317771
Keywords
disgust; emotion; morality; embodiment; embodied cognition
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH050074-09A1, R01MH50074, R03MH67580, R03 MH067580, R01 MH050074] Funding Source: Medline
- ESRC [ES/F001231/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/F001231/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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How, and for whom, does disgust influence moral judgment? In four experiments participants made moral judgments while experiencing extraneous feelings of disgust. Disgust was induced in Experiment 1 by exposure to a bad smell, in Experiment 2 by working in a disgusting room, in Experiment 3 by recalling a physically disgusting experience, and in Experiment 4 through a video induction. In each case, the results showed that disgust can increase the severity of moral judgments relative to controls. Experiment 4 found that disgust had a different effect on moral judgment than did sadness. In addition, Experiments 2-4 showed that the role of disgust in severity of moral judgments depends on participants' sensitivity to their own bodily sensations. Taken together, these data indicate the importance - and specificity - of gut feelings in moral judgments.
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