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Disgust Predicts Non-consequentialistic Moral Attitudes

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Author

  • Arvid Erlandsson

Summary, in English

237 Japanese university-students read nine moral stories based on three moral aspects (absolute rules, absolute loyalty and retributive punishment) and rated which of two endings (one typically consequentialistic and one typically non-consequentialistic) they believed to be morally preferable. Participants also rated themselves on several personality-variables. Disgust-sensitivity, but not cognitive style or anger proneness, significantly predicted non-consequentialistic attitudes in all three aspects. The results suggest that individual differences in disgust-sensitivity not only predict the severity of moral judgments, but also the amount of non-consequentialistic attitudes.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

133-144

Publication/Series

Educational Studies

Volume

54

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

International Christian University Publications 1-A

Topic

  • Psychology

Keywords

  • Disgust-sensitivity
  • Individual differences
  • Moral attitudes
  • Consequentialism
  • Retributive punishment

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0452-3318