ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Body Odor Disgust Sensitivity Predicts Moral Harshness Toward Moral Violations of Purity.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Scents of right and wrong: how odor-induced affect shapes moral judgment in adults and preschoolers.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Effects of Spicy Food on Sense of Fairness: Mediating Effects of Aggression and Pathogen Avoidance.PsyCh journal · 2025Article
- What emotions are elicited by smells in Japanese people? Emotional measurement using a universal scale in Japanese.PloS one · 2025Article
- Italian validation of the body odor disgust scale.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- The Role of Childhood Experiences in the Development of Disgust Sensitivity: A Preliminary Study on Early Moral Memories.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2023Article
- The Scent of Monogamy: Self-Reported Olfactory Function Predicts Sexual Well-Being and Infidelity in an Italian Population.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Article
- Infection threat shapes our social instincts.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2021Review
- Disease and Disapproval: COVID-19 Concern is Related to Greater Moral Condemnation.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Detecting pathogen threats and avoiding disease is fundamental to human survival. The behavioral immune system (BIS) framework outlines a set of psychological functions that may have evolved for this purpose. Disgust is a core emotion that plays a pivotal role in the BIS, as it activates the behavioral avoidance motives that prevent people from being in contact with pathogens. To date, there has been little agreement on how disgust sensitivity might underlie moral judgments. Here, we investigated moral violations of "purity" (assumed to elicit disgust) and violations of "harm" (assumed to elicit anger). We hypothesized that individual differences in BIS-related traits would be associated with greater disgust (vs. anger) reactivity to, and greater condemnation of Purity (vs. Harm) violations. The study was pre-registered (https://osf.io/57nm8/). Participants (
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