Disgust sensitivity and the neurophysiology of left-right political orientations.

Disgust has been described as the most primitive and central of emotions. Thus, it is not surprising that it shapes behaviors in a variety of organisms and in a variety of contexts--including homo sapien politics. People who believe they would be bothered by a range of hypothetical disgusting situat...

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Autores principales:	Kevin B Smith, Douglas Oxley, Matthew V Hibbing, John R Alford, John R Hibbing
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:de3b1fa4b7c5401fb4254f8a41822e282021-11-18T07:36:11ZDisgust sensitivity and the neurophysiology of left-right political orientations.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0025552https://doaj.org/article/de3b1fa4b7c5401fb4254f8a41822e282011-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22039415/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Disgust has been described as the most primitive and central of emotions. Thus, it is not surprising that it shapes behaviors in a variety of organisms and in a variety of contexts--including homo sapien politics. People who believe they would be bothered by a range of hypothetical disgusting situations display an increased likelihood of displaying right-of-center rather than left-of-center political orientations. Given its primal nature and essential value in avoiding pathogens disgust likely has an effect even without registering in conscious beliefs. In this article, we demonstrate that individuals with marked involuntary physiological responses to disgusting images, such as of a man eating a large mouthful of writhing worms, are more likely to self-identify as conservative and, especially, to oppose gay marriage than are individuals with more muted physiological responses to the same images. This relationship holds even when controlling for the degree to which respondents believe themselves to be disgust sensitive and suggests that people's physiological predispositions help to shape their political orientations.Kevin B SmithDouglas OxleyMatthew V HibbingJohn R AlfordJohn R HibbingPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 6, Iss 10, p e25552 (2011)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Kevin B Smith Douglas Oxley Matthew V Hibbing John R Alford John R Hibbing Disgust sensitivity and the neurophysiology of left-right political orientations.
description	Disgust has been described as the most primitive and central of emotions. Thus, it is not surprising that it shapes behaviors in a variety of organisms and in a variety of contexts--including homo sapien politics. People who believe they would be bothered by a range of hypothetical disgusting situations display an increased likelihood of displaying right-of-center rather than left-of-center political orientations. Given its primal nature and essential value in avoiding pathogens disgust likely has an effect even without registering in conscious beliefs. In this article, we demonstrate that individuals with marked involuntary physiological responses to disgusting images, such as of a man eating a large mouthful of writhing worms, are more likely to self-identify as conservative and, especially, to oppose gay marriage than are individuals with more muted physiological responses to the same images. This relationship holds even when controlling for the degree to which respondents believe themselves to be disgust sensitive and suggests that people's physiological predispositions help to shape their political orientations.
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title	Disgust sensitivity and the neurophysiology of left-right political orientations.
title_short	Disgust sensitivity and the neurophysiology of left-right political orientations.
title_full	Disgust sensitivity and the neurophysiology of left-right political orientations.
title_fullStr	Disgust sensitivity and the neurophysiology of left-right political orientations.
title_full_unstemmed	Disgust sensitivity and the neurophysiology of left-right political orientations.
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Disgust sensitivity and the neurophysiology of left-right political orientations.

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