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Moral Offense or Stomachache? How Disgust Shapes our Moral Judgments

We normally think of morality in terms of people’s basic ethical principles. But experiments with ginger show that there’s more to it than that.

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Disgust Way of Communicating Moral Motivation

New research carried out by psychologists at the University of Kent has shown for the first time that a decision to express disgust or anger depends on the motives a person seeks to communicate.

Previous studies have suggested that the emotion of disgust originally evolved to protect people from infectious disease; people don’t generally eat rotten meat, crawling with maggots, because they feel disgusted by the prospect.

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