Department of Psychology, Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2009 Dec;97(6):963-76. doi: 10.1037/a0017423.
Guided by appraisal-based models of the influence of emotion upon judgment, we propose that disgust moralizes--that is, amplifies the moral significance of--protecting the purity of the body and soul. Three studies documented that state and trait disgust, but not other negative emotions, moralize the purity moral domain but not the moral domains of justice or harm/care. In Study 1, integral feelings of disgust, but not integral anger, predicted stronger moral condemnation of behaviors violating purity. In Study 2, experimentally induced disgust, compared with induced sadness, increased condemnation of behaviors violating purity and increased approval of behaviors upholding purity. In Study 3, trait disgust, but not trait anger or trait fear, predicted stronger condemnation of purity violations and greater approval of behaviors upholding purity. We found that, confirming the domain specificity of the disgust-purity association, disgust was unrelated to moral judgments about justice (Studies 1 and 2) or harm/care (Study 3). Finally, across studies, individuals of lower socioeconomic status (SES) were more likely than individuals of higher SES to moralize purity but not justice or harm/care.
受基于评价的情绪对判断影响模型的指导，我们提出厌恶使道德化——即放大保护身体和灵魂纯洁的道德意义。三项研究记录了状态和特质厌恶，但不是其他负面情绪，使纯洁道德领域道德化，而不是正义或伤害/关怀道德领域。在研究 1 中，整体的厌恶感，而不是整体的愤怒感，预测对违反纯洁的行为有更强的道德谴责。在研究 2 中，与诱导悲伤相比，实验诱导的厌恶感增加了对违反纯洁行为的谴责，增加了对维护纯洁行为的认可。在研究 3 中，特质厌恶，而不是特质愤怒或特质恐惧，预测对纯洁违规行为的谴责更强烈，对维护纯洁行为的认可也更大。我们发现，厌恶与纯洁的关联具有特定的领域性，这得到了证实，厌恶与正义（研究 1 和 2）或伤害/关怀（研究 3）的道德判断无关。最后，在各项研究中，社会经济地位（SES）较低的个体比 SES 较高的个体更有可能使纯洁道德化，但不是正义或伤害/关怀。
