Conservatives are more easily disgusted than liberals

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Inbar, Yoel Pizarro, David Bloom, Paul
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	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 positive correlation between disgust sensitivity and self-reported conservatism in a broad sample of US adults. In Study 2 we show that while disgust sensitivity is associated with more conservative attitudes on a range of political issues, this relationship is strongest for purity-related issues—specifically, abortion and gay marriage.
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930802110007
Language	English
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