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Disgust, politics, and responses to threat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2014

Yoel Inbar  and
David Pizarro
Yoel Inbar
Affiliation:
Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. yinbar@uvt.nlhttp://yoelinbar.net
David Pizarro
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. dap54@cornell.eduhttp://peezer.net
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Abstract

We address two questions regarding the relationship between political ideology and responses to threatening or aversive stimuli. The first concerns the reason for the connection between disgust and specific political and moral attitudes; the second concerns the observation that some responses to threat (i.e., neuroticism/anxiety) are associated with a more left-wing political orientation.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 315 - 316
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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