Disgust: A predictor of social conservatism and prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuals

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How Disgust Influences Health Purity Attitudes (2016, background): “This rhetoric bears a striking similarity to language used in the stem cell debate (another policy area in which opposition is driven by disgust; Terrizzi et al. 2010), which also made references to Frankenstein and used words like ‘‘gruesome’’ and ‘‘grotesque’’ (Nisbet et al.”
The Behavioral Immune System: Implications for Social Cognition, Social Interaction, and Social Influence (2016, unknown): “…disgust are also more likely to express attitudes reflecting political conservatism (e.g., Brenner & Inbar, 2015; Inbar, Pizarro, & Bloom, 2009; Olatunji, Tolin, Huppert, & Lohr, 2005; Smith, Oxley, Hibbing, Alford, & Hibbing, 2011; Terrizzi et al., 2010; Terrizzi, Shook, & Ventis, 2012).”
Is the Relationship Between Pathogen Avoidance and Ideological Conservatism Explained by Sexual Strategies (2015, background): “…resistance to stem cell research, abortion, and homosexualmarriage has been interpreted as a strategy for socially excluding outgroups who pose pathogen threats (Terrizzi et al., 2010), other accounts suggest that such attitudes serve strategic reproductive functions (Weeden & Kurzban, 2014).”