Disgust, politics, and responses to threat. Issue 3 (27th June 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Inbar, Yoel; Pizarro, David
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 37:Issue 3(2014)
• Page Start: 315
• Page End: 316
• Publication Date: 2014-06-27
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13002598
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="normal"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>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 <italic>left-wing</italic> political orientation.</p> </abstract>