APS

31st APS Annual Convention

Delineating the Relationship Between Disgust and Political Conservatism: Examination of Its Underlying Mechanisms and Resulting Consequences

Friday, May 24, 2019 · Washington, DC

Oral · Social

This symposium brings together new research that sheds light on how the well-established link between disgust and conservatism extends beyond the political domain to moral judgments and attention to emotion stimuli. The research presented proposes preference for order as a potential underlying mechanism for the link between disgust and conservatism.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Xiaowen XuChair
    The College of William & Mary

Presentations

  1. Trait Disgust Predicts Moral Judgment Independently of ConservatismHanah Chapman, Annika Karinen
  2. Disgust and Deontology: Trait Sensitivity to Contamination Promotes a Preference for Order, Hierarchy, and Rule-Based Moral JudgmentJeffrey Robinson, Xiaowen Xu, Jason Plaks
  3. Ew, Gross! Ideological Differences in Attention to Disgusting StimuliNatalie Shook, Benjamin Oosterhoff
  4. An Orderly Personality Partially Explains the Link between Trait Disgust and Political ConservatismXiaowen Xu, Annika Karinen, Hanah Chapman, Jason Plaks, Jordan Peterson