Air Pollution Predicts Harsh Moral Judgment

Pollution and purity in moral and political judgment

The emotion of disgust is evoked by substances such as urine, vomit, blood, and feces, but—as a growing body of work demonstrates—it also plays a significant role in our moral, social, and political attitudes. Despite this wealth of recent research, the reason for the connection between disgust and these attitudes remains unclear. We review the research linking disgust to moral, social, and pol...

Time and moral judgment.

Do moral judgments hinge on the time available to render them? According to a recent dual-process model of moral judgment, moral dilemmas that engage emotional processes are likely to result in fast deontological gut reactions. In contrast, consequentialist responses that tot up lives saved and lost in response to such dilemmas would require cognitive control to override the initial response. C...

Moral Judgment and Emotions

Moral Judgment An fMRI

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Emotion and moral judgment.

Research in psychology and cognitive science has consistently demonstrated the importance of emotion in a wide range of everyday judgments, including moral judgment. Most current accounts of moral judgment hold that emotion plays an important role, but the nature and extent of this role are still debated. We outline three increasingly strong claims about the role of emotion in moral judgment an...