Disgusting emotion, as part of the disease avoidance
system, not only guides our body but also guides our heart. Previous studies
that investigated the relationship between disgust and moral judgment showed
that, for example, experimentally evoked physical disgust render more stringent judgement on moral violations in adults.
In a typical paradigm, the ways to
evoke physical disgust are diverse, such as posthypnotic suggestion, viewing
disgusting video clips or photos, and exposure to an unpleasant odor. After
being primed with disgusting emotion, participants are presented with short
vignettes about moral transgressions, which can be related to physical disgust
(e.g., having sex between cousins, eating a dead dog) or pure moral disgust
(e.g., stealing, lying). In these studies, moral judgement is defined as the
consequence of appraisal. Participants are asked to judge how wrong they
consider the behavior to be, the extent to which they would punish the actor,
and how much they would like to avoid the act or actor. Read more>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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