Background and objectives Disgust has been associated with mental contamination (MC),
although the evidence has hitherto been nonexperimental. Furthermore, strategies that can …

… compare moral judgements of dyadic purity violations with moral … moral judgements of
dyadic purity violations with moral … We report all measures, manipulations, and exclusions. …

… Not surprisingly, mental contamination is a prominent characteristic of obsessive compulsive
disorder (OCD). Some individuals with OCD express great frustration about the inability to …

… lays the groundwork for substantial conceptual heterogeneity across moral psychology.
Second, we perform a systematic analysis of definitions and operationalizations of purity across …

… that occurs in response to sexual assault and moral violations. More inclusive treatments …
that even the manipulation of imagining a sexual assault triggered intense feelings of …

… We ran a meta-analysis on six samples to establish the overall effect of trait disgust on … idea
by examining whether manipulating the magnitude of disorder amplifies moral judgment, and …

… We present two primary sets of analyses, which we introduce before connecting to specific
… Although we manipulated both the kind of moral scenarios (everyday vs. unusual purity) …

… correlational and experimental designs and assessed which manipulations were used to …
responses were captured, in moral judgments provided, emotional and behavioral indicators, …

… mental contamination, negative emotions, and the urge to wash levels. The path analysis
indicated that disgust propensity and contamination-… mental contamination can have a moral …

… ), contamination can also occur in the absence of contact with an external object (mental
contamination [… scores, and path analysis confirmed that the TDDS-Moral subscale scores were …