Minimal criteria for an impurity domain of morality

J Piazza, P Sousa - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
There is much disagreement about the claim that impurity constitutes a moral domain. We
propose a set of minimal criteria that could help re-orient the field to a direction of consensus …

Defensive emotions and evaluative judgements: Sensitivity to anger and fear predicts moral judgements, whereas sensitivity to disgust predicts aesthetic judgements

A Dorado, M Skov, J Rosselló… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aesthetic and moral evaluations engage appetitive and defensive emotions. While the role
played by pleasure in positive aesthetic and moral judgements has been extensively …

Disgusting democrats and repulsive republicans: Members of political outgroups are considered physically gross

JF Landy, J Rottman, C Batres… - Personality and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The status of disgust as a sociomoral emotion is debated. We conducted a stringent test of
whether social stimuli (specifically, political outgroup members) can elicit physical disgust …

Deconstructing disgust as the emotion of violations of body and soul.

D Kollareth, M Shirai, M Helmy, JA Russell - Emotion, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Through the evolutionary process of preadaptation, disgust was coopted to serve as the
guardian not just of one's body but also of one's soul—or so it has been theorized. On this …

Expressions of moral disgust reflect both disgust and anger

F van der Eijk, S Columbus - Cognition and Emotion, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
People often appear to conflate anger and disgust, seemingly using expressions of both
emotions interchangeably in response to moral violations. Yet, anger and moral disgust …

Evidence for a dissociation between moral reasoning and moral decision‐making in Tourette syndrome

CM Vicario, N Maugeri, C Lucifora… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the growing interest on how Tourette syndrome (TS) affects social cognition skills,
this field remains to date relatively under‐explored. Here, we aim to advance knowledge on …

[HTML][HTML] Moral violations that target more valued victims elicit more anger, but not necessarily more disgust

L Fan, C Molho, TR Kupfer, JM Tybur - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
The same moral violation can give rise to different emotional and behavioral responses in
different individuals. The mechanisms that give rise to such differences–and the functions …

Incidental disgust does not cause moral condemnation of neutral actions

J Jylkkä, J Härkönen, J Hyönä - Cognition and Emotion, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Emotivism in moral psychology holds that making moral judgements is at least partly an
affective process. Three emotivist hypotheses can be distinguished: the elicitation …

Justifications of emotional responses to eliciting situations: A narratological approach to the CAD hypothesis

C Song, X Rui, N Xie - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The CAD hypothesis holds that there is mapping between the three moral emotions
(contempt, anger and disgust) and the three moral codes of community, autonomy and …

Bad people alert: The expression of disgust signals its target's bad moral character

D Liu, R Giner-Sorolla - Collabra: Psychology, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
Expressions of moral disgust and anger in social situations signal the target's moral failure to
third-party observers. But little is known about whether the two emotions have different …