Can sweet-tasting substances trigger kind, favorable judgments about other people? What
about substances that are disgusting and bitter? Various studies have linked physical …

How, and for whom, does disgust influence moral judgment? In four experiments
participants made moral judgments while experiencing extraneous feelings of disgust …

To address ongoing debates about whether feelings of disgust are causally related to moral
judgments, we pharmacologically inhibited spontaneous disgust responses to moral …

The role of emotion in moral judgment is currently a topic of much debate in moral
psychology. One specific claim made by many researchers is that irrelevant feelings of …

Although there is an emerging consensus that disgust plays a role in human morality, it
remains unclear whether this role is limited to transgressions that contain elements of …

Much like unpalatable foods, filthy restrooms, and bloody wounds, moral transgressions are
often described as “disgusting.” This linguistic similarity suggests that there is a link between …

Disgust, an emotion that most likely evolved to keep us away from noxious substances and
disease, seems especially active in our moral lives. People report feeling disgust in …

There is evidence that inducing feelings of disgust increases the severity of moral
judgments, but the size of this association has been questioned by a recent meta-analysis …

Individual differences in disgust sensitivity are associated with a range of judgments and
attitudes related to the moral domain. Some perspectives suggest that the association …

Despite the wealth of recent work implicating disgust as an emotion central to human
morality, the nature of the causal relationship between disgust and moral judgment remains …