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- Title
Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment.
- Authors
Schnall, Simone; Haidt, Jonathan; Clore, Gerald L.; Jordan, Alexander H.
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
JUDGMENT (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY; THOUGHT &; thinking; WISDOM; ATTITUDE change (Psychology); COMMON sense; PUBLIC opinion; SIZE judgment; SUBJECTIVITY
- Publication
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 2008, Vol 34, Issue 8, p1096
- ISSN
0146-1672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0146167208317771