Article ; Online: The physiological basis of psychological disgust and moral judgments.
Journal of personality and social psychology
2019 Volume 116, Issue 1, Page(s) 15–32
Abstract: To address ongoing debates about whether feelings of disgust are causally related to moral judgments, we pharmacologically inhibited spontaneous disgust responses to moral infractions and examined effects on moral thinking. Findings demonstrated, first, ... ...
Abstract | To address ongoing debates about whether feelings of disgust are causally related to moral judgments, we pharmacologically inhibited spontaneous disgust responses to moral infractions and examined effects on moral thinking. Findings demonstrated, first, that the antiemetic ginger (Zingiber officinale), known to inhibit nausea, reduces feelings of disgust toward nonmoral purity-offending stimuli (e.g., bodily fluids), providing the first experimental evidence that disgust is causally rooted in physiological nausea (Study 1). Second, this same physiological experience was causally related to moral thinking: ginger reduced the severity of judgments toward purity-based moral violations (Studies 2 and 4) or eliminated the tendency for people higher in bodily sensation awareness to make harsher moral judgments than those low in this dispositional tendency (Study 3). In all studies, effects were restricted to moderately severe purity-offending stimuli, consistent with preregistered predictions. Together, findings provide the first evidence that psychological disgust can be disrupted by an antiemetic and that doing so has consequences for moral judgments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved). |
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MeSH term(s) | Adult ; Disgust ; Female ; Zingiber officinale ; Humans ; Judgment/physiology ; Male ; Morals ; Nausea/physiopathology ; Nausea/prevention & control ; Nausea/psychology ; Students/psychology ; Students/statistics & numerical data ; Universities ; Young Adult |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2019-01-02 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 3103-3 |
ISSN | 1939-1315 ; 0022-3514 |
ISSN (online) | 1939-1315 |
ISSN | 0022-3514 |
DOI | 10.1037/pspa0000141 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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