Conservatives are more easily disgusted than liberals
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Conservatives are more easily disgusted than liberals
The uniquely human emotion of disgust is intimately connected to morality in many, perhaps all, cultures (Rozin, Lowery, Imada, & Haidt, 1999b). We report two studies suggesting that a predisposition to feel disgust (‘‘disgust sensitivity’’) is associated with more conservative political attitudes, especially for issues related to the moral dimension of purity. In the first study, we document a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition & Emotion
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0269-9931,1464-0600
DOI: 10.1080/02699930802110007