Liu, Daqing, Giner-Sorolla, Roger (2024) Bad people alert: The expression of disgust signals its target’s bad moral character. Collabra: Psychology, . ISSN 2474-7394. E-ISSN 2474-7394. (In press) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:105294)
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Abstract
Expressions of moral disgust and anger in social situations signal the target’s moral failure to third-party observers. But little is known about whether the two emotions have different communication functions in sociomoral contexts. Based on the literature about social factors that actually distinguish between anger and disgust, two experiments investigated the inferences people make about the social target of an angry or disgusted expression. Primarily, we tested whether disgusted expressions aimed at a person convey the inference that the person has a bad moral character, more than angry expressions which communicate that the person did a thing with bad consequences. Together, these two experiments shed light on the functional differences between angry and disgusted expressions, as much as they co-occur in everyday life.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | anger, disgust, emotion, expressions, morality, social communication |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Funders: | University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56) |
Depositing User: | Roger Giner-Sorolla |
Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2024 14:11 UTC |
Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2024 12:52 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/105294 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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