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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Moral Psychology
  • Emotion Science

Background:

  • Disgust is a fundamental emotion influencing social and moral judgments.
  • Understanding the development of moral disgust in children is crucial for developmental psychology.
  • Previous research has primarily focused on pathogen disgust, with less attention to moral disgust development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how mothers and children discuss moral and pathogen disgust.
  • To examine age-related differences in children's understanding and expression of disgust.
  • To explore the association between moral transgressions, anger, and disgust.

Main Methods:

  • 68 mother-child dyads with children aged 4, 6, and 8 years participated.
  • Participants engaged in four tasks involving emotion recognition, item generation, and transgression categorization.
  • Data included accuracy in emotion recognition and ratings of moral and pathogen transgressions.

Main Results:

  • Children recognized happiness better than disgust, but disgust recognition was comparable to sadness and anger.
  • Moral transgressions were associated with anger, while pathogen transgressions were linked to disgust.
  • Both children and mothers rated pathogen-related scenarios as more disgusting than moral ones.

Conclusions:

  • Children as young as 8 years old demonstrate a developing understanding of moral disgust, often using it metaphorically.
  • Pathogen disgust is understood earlier and more distinctly than moral disgust in early childhood.
  • This research highlights the distinct developmental trajectories of pathogen and moral disgust processing.