Hypnotic Disgust Makes Moral Judgments More Severe

By Thalia Wheatley, Jonathan Haidt. Psychology Science, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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A clean self can render harsh moral judgment (2010, methodology): “Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Experimental Social Psychology journal homepage: www.elsevier .com/locate / jesp by hypnosis (Wheatley & Haidt, 2005) or objects unrelated to the target of moral judgment (Schnall, Haidt, Clore, & Jordan, 2008) can also lead to harsh moral…”
Approach, Ability, Aftermath: A Psychological Process Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work (2015, background): “In part because the experience of disgust is so aversive, and felt at such a visceral level (associated with nausea), we recoil from situations or objects that are associated with this emotion (Schnall et al., 2008; Wheatley & Haidt, 2005).”
Emotion and Rationality: A Critical Review and Interpretation of Empirical Evidence (2007, background): “…of moral violations if the level of repulsion that they experience when making moral judgments is artificially increased through an incidental affect manipulation (Schnall, Haidt, & Clore, 2006; Trafimow, Bromgard, Finlay, & Ketelaar, 2005) or through hypnotic conditioning (Wheatley & Haidt, 2005).”
13 Ethical Decision Making: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going (2008, background): “Wheatley and Haidt ( 2005 ) found that hypnotically induced disgust increased the severity of individuals’ moral judgments of hypothetical situations.”
Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment (2008, methodology): “…emotions such as fear (Lerner & Keltner, 2001; Loewenstein et al., 2001), anger (Bodenhausen, Shepard, & Kramer, 1994; DeSteno, Petty, Wegener, & Rucker, 2000; Keltner, Ellsworth, & Edwards, 1993; Lerner & Keltner, 2001), and disgust (Lerner, Small, & Loewenstein, 2004; Wheatley & Haidt, 2005).”
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Moral Judgment (2010, background): “Specific emotions: Several studies of moral judgment have focused on specific moral emotions, including moral disgust (Rozin et al., 1994; Rozin et al., 1999; Wheatley and Haidt, 2005).”
The behavioral immune system: Current concerns and future directions (2018, neutral): “…Newman, 2017; Oaten, Stevenson, & Case, 2009; Rozin, Haidt, & McCauley, 1993; Tybur et al., 2013)—and predict greater sensitivity to moral violations (e.g., Horberg et al., 2009; Jones & Fitness, 2008; Murray, Kerry, & Gervais, 2017; Tybur, Lieberman, & Griskevicius, 2009; Wheatley & Haidt, 2005).”
Moral psychology for the twenty-first century (2013, background): “In my own experimental work, I conducted several studies that manipulated emotional reactions, for example, by inducing a flash of hypnotic disgust (Wheatley & Haidt, 2005) or by having people (Schnall, Haidt, Clore, & Jordan, 2008).”
Social intuitionists answer six questions about moral psychology. (2008, background): “Wheatley and Haidt (2005) hypnotized one group of subjects to feel a flash of disgust whenever they read the word " take " ; another group was hypnotized to feel disgust at the word " often.”
A Dissociation Between Moral Judgments and Justifications (2007, background): “For example, Haidt ’ s (2001 ; 2003) ( Wheatley and Haidt, 2005 ) work shows that when people confront scenarios involving some kind of disgusting action, they engage in a process called ‘ moral dumbfounding ’ in which they fail to give suffi cient justifi cations for their confi dently delivered…”