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Moral anger, but not moral disgust, responds to intentionality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We propose that, when people judge moral situations, anger responds to the contextual cues of harm and intentionality. On the other hand, disgust responds uniquely to whether or not a bodily norm violation has occurred; its apparent response to harm and ...
Giner-Sorolla, Roger   +6 more
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Direct and Indirect Learning Pathways to Disgust

open access: yes, 2021
Disgust, as a food-related emotion, or distaste (thought to be a precursor to disgust) has often been studied within an associative learning framework. However, it is only within the last few decades that disgust, as a basic emotion, has been considered ...
Chris Askew   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices.
Hakola, Outi
core   +1 more source

Exploring the Emotion of Disgust: Differences in Smelling and Feeling

open access: yesChemosensors, 2018
Disgust evolved to motivate humans away from disease cues and may heighten discernment of these cues. Disease cues are often best perceived through our sense of smell, however very few studies have examined how eliciting disgust influences smell ...
Lorenzo D. Stafford   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social justifications for moral emotions: When reasons for disgust are less elaborated than for anger [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In the present research we test the unreasoning disgust hypothesis: moral disgust, in particular in response to a violation of a bodily norm, is less likely than moral anger to be justified with cognitively elaborated reasons.
Giner-Sorolla, Roger   +6 more
core   +1 more source

The neurology of disgust [PDF]

open access: yesBrain, 2007
Emotions form part of the fabric of our minds, and the scientific attempts to map these dimensions onto the underlying neural substrates date back to the first half of the last century. It has long been suggested that emotional functions are associated with subcortical structures (e.g. Cannon, 1927; Kluver & Bucy, 1937; Hess, 1954).
openaire   +2 more sources

Anger, disgust, and presumption of harm as reactions to taboo-breaking behaviors. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Three experiments investigated the relationship between the presumption of harm in harm-free violations of creatural norms (taboos) and the moral emotions of anger and disgust.
Giner-Sorolla, Roger, Gutierrez, Roberto
core   +1 more source

The neuropsychology of disgust [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2013
Beginning with the landmark case of Phineas Gage (Harlow, 1868), studies of neurological patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) damage have time and again demonstrated a critical role for this brain area in various aspects of emotion, social cognition and decision-making.
openaire   +2 more sources

A Danger to a Just Society? A Holistic view on Disgust

open access: yesLebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience, 2019
In this paper, I consider the relationship that obtains between disgust and the idea of a just society. Contra Martha C. Nussbaum, who argues that disgust poses dangers to a just society, I contend that disgust can either damage or promote the ...
Marco Tedeschini
doaj   +1 more source

Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behaviour. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Disgust is an evolved psychological system for protecting organisms from infection through disease avoidant behaviour. This 'behavioural immune system', present in a diverse array of species, exhibits universal features that orchestrate hygienic ...
Aunger, Robert   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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