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Beyond Purity.

Roger Giner-Sorolla1, Hanah A Chapman2

  • 11 School of Psychology, University of Kent.

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|January 13, 2017
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Disgust emotions are linked to moral character, not just impurity. Anger is more associated with harmful actions and their consequences, challenging previous assumptions.

Area of Science:

  • Moral Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Traditional views link moral disgust to impurity and anger to harm.
  • This study challenges the strict correspondence between these emotions and their typical elicitors.
  • Understanding the nuances of moral emotions is crucial for social cognition research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether moral disgust is activated by perceived moral character, beyond impurity.
  • To examine the relationship between anger and information about actions, including moral wrongness and consequences.
  • To differentiate the emotional responses of disgust and anger to moral violations.

Main Methods:

  • Three studies were conducted, employing different methodologies to assess emotional responses.
Keywords:
angercharacterdisgustharmmoralityopen materialspreregisteredpurity

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  • Study 1 compared disgust and anger to actions suggesting bad moral character (animal cruelty) versus inherently wrong actions (domestic abuse).
  • Studies 2 and 3 manipulated agent's desire to harm and action consequences to isolate predictors of disgust and anger.

    • Main Results:

    • Animal cruelty elicited more disgust than domestic abuse, while domestic abuse elicited more anger.
    • Evidence of bad moral character, specifically the desire to harm, predicted disgust.
    • Harmful consequences of actions were more closely related to anger.

    Conclusions:

    • Disgust is strongly associated with perceptions of bad moral character, not solely with impurity.
    • Anger is more reliably predicted by the harmfulness and consequences of actions.
    • These findings refine our understanding of the distinct elicitors and functions of moral emotions like disgust and anger.