Boston College.
Emotion. 2019 Feb;19(1):37-52. doi: 10.1037/emo0000412. Epub 2018 Mar 1.
Disgust has been hypothesized to be uniquely linked to violations of a distinct moral domain (called divinity, purity, or sacred) aimed at preserving one's body from contamination with pathogens and preserving one's soul from violations of what is sacred. Here we examined whether the same emotion-core disgust-occurs when witnessing both types of violation, and we proposed a specific method for doing so. In two studies (N = 160; 240), American and Indian participants indicated their emotional reaction to (stories depicting) sacred or nonsacred violations, each either with or without pathogens. Both Americans and Indians felt "grossed out" (a term for core disgust) by events with pathogens (whether violations of the sacred or not). They felt disgusted and angered, but not grossed out, by violations of the sacred. For both Americans and Indians, grossed out was never the modal emotion when a sacred violation did not involve pathogens. Results were inconsistent with a focus on any single emotion: sacred violations were associated with several different negative emotions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
厌恶被假设与违反独特的道德领域（称为神性、纯洁或神圣）有关，旨在防止身体受到病原体的污染，并防止灵魂受到神圣的侵犯。在这里，我们研究了当目睹这两种类型的侵犯时，是否会产生相同的情绪核心厌恶，并提出了一种具体的方法来进行研究。在两项研究中（N=160；240），美国和印度的参与者表示了他们对（描述）神圣或非神圣侵犯的情绪反应，每个侵犯事件都有或没有病原体。美国人（美国人）和印度人（印度人）都对有病原体的事件感到“恶心”（核心厌恶的一个术语）（恶心）（无论是神圣的侵犯还是其他侵犯）。他们对侵犯神圣感到厌恶和愤怒，但并不感到恶心。对于美国人和印度人来说，当神圣的侵犯不涉及病原体时，恶心从来都不是主要情绪。结果与专注于任何单一情绪不一致：神圣的侵犯与几种不同的负面情绪有关。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
