On Disgust and Moral Judgments: A Review

Cristina-Elena Ivan

doi:10.5334/jeps.cq

On Disgust and Moral Judgments: A Review

Journal of European Psychology Students

Volume 6 (2015): Issue 1

By: Cristina-Elena Ivan

Open Access

|Apr 2015

Abstract

While there is a continuing debate on whether cognitive or emotional mechanisms underlie moral judgments, recent studies have illustrated that emotions—particularly disgust—play a prominent role in moral reasoning. This review explores the role of disgust in moral judgments. I distinguish between three relevant claims regarding its involvement in moral cognition and argue that the least appealing (i.e., disgust is just anger in disguise) is also the one with the least empirical support.

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