Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Department of Psychology.
Emotion. 2022 Dec;22(8):1919-1928. doi: 10.1037/emo0000886. Epub 2021 Oct 28.
Through the evolutionary process of preadaptation, disgust was coopted to serve as the guardian not just of one's body but also of one's soul-or so it has been theorized. On this theory, elicitors include health-related threats and nonhealth-related degrading acts, which together form a pancultural domain of morality. A prediction from this theory was examined here in four samples: 96 English-speaking Americans, 96 Malayalam-speaking Indians, 136 Japanese-speaking Japanese, and 194 Arabic-speaking Egyptians. Participants read health and nonhealth threat stories (derived from prior studies) and were asked to judge how immoral the action was, what word describes the emotion elicited by the story, and what facial expression conveys that emotion. Even though health threats elicited disgust, they were seen as barely immoral if at all. In contrast, nonhealth events were immoral but elicited anger more than disgust. Emotional reactions to heath and nonhealth threats did not indicate that they are the same emotion. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
通过预适应的进化过程，厌恶情绪不仅被用作保护身体的手段，也被用作保护灵魂的手段——这是理论上的假设。根据这一理论，引发因素包括与健康相关的威胁和与健康无关的退化行为，它们共同构成了一个泛文化的道德领域。本文在四个样本中检验了这一理论的一个预测：96 名说英语的美国人、96 名说马拉雅拉姆语的印度人、136 名说日语的日本人以及 194 名说阿拉伯语的埃及人。参与者阅读了健康和非健康威胁的故事（源自先前的研究），并被要求判断该行为的不道德程度、描述故事引发的情绪的词语以及传达该情绪的面部表情。尽管健康威胁会引发厌恶感，但它们几乎被认为是不道德的。相比之下，非健康事件是不道德的，但引发的是愤怒而不是厌恶。对健康和非健康威胁的情绪反应表明它们不是同一种情绪。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2022 APA，保留所有权利）。
