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2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

The Effects of Deontological Guilt and Disgust Sensitivity over Actual Moral Behavior

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Personality/Emotion Psychology

  • Irene Parisi
  • Irene Parisi
    Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova
  • Maria Serena Panasiti
    IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia
  • Maria Serena Panasiti
    Sapienza University of Rome
  • Alessandra Mancini
    Scuole di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia Cognitiva APC-SPC, Rome
  • Francesco Mancini
    Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome
  • Francesco Mancini
    Scuole di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia Cognitiva APC-SPC, Rome
  • Salvatore Maria Aglioti
    Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova
  • Salvatore Maria Aglioti
    IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia
  • Salvatore Maria Aglioti
    Sapienza University of Rome

Abstract

Disgust Sensitivity (DS) moderates the relationship between moral standards and actual moral behavior: when people are high in DS, the feeling of Deontological Guilt or an higher sensitivity to morality (authority) might increase the distance between moral standards and self-perceived moral image and in turn, decrease honest behavior.

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