Different influences of moral violation with and without physical impurity on face processing: An event-related potentials study.

ABSTRACT: It has been widely accepted that moral violations that involve impurity (such as spitting in public) induce the emotion of disgust, but there has been a debate about whether moral violations that do not involve impurity (such as swearing in public) also induce the same emotion. The answer to this question may have implication for understanding where morality comes from and how people make moral judgments. This study aimed to compared the neural mechanisms underlying two kinds of moral violation by using an affective priming task to test the effect of sentences depicting moral violation behaviors with and without physical impurity on subsequent detection of disgusted faces in a visual search task. After reading each sentence, participants completed the face search task. Behavioral and elect

SUBMITTER: Jiang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7743946 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature