Authors
Catherine Molho, Joshua M Tybur, Ezgi Güler, Daniel Balliet, Wilhelm Hofmann
Publication date
2017/5
Journal
Psychological science
Volume
28
Issue
5
Pages
609-619
Publisher
Sage Publications
Description
In response to the same moral violation, some people report experiencing anger, and others report feeling disgust. Do differences in emotional responses to moral violations reflect idiosyncratic differences in the communication of outrage, or do they reflect differences in motivational states? Whereas equivalence accounts suggest that anger and disgust are interchangeable expressions of condemnation, sociofunctional accounts suggest that they have distinct antecedents and consequences. We tested these accounts by investigating whether anger and disgust vary depending on the costs imposed by moral violations and whether they differentially correspond with aggressive tendencies. Results across four studies favor a sociofunctional account: When the target of a moral violation shifts from the self to another person, anger decreases, but disgust increases. Whereas anger is associated with high-cost, direct …
Total citations
201620172018201920202021202220232024121623183032389
Scholar articles
C Molho, JM Tybur, E Güler, D Balliet, W Hofmann - Psychological science, 2017