Does Disgust Increase Unethical Behavior? A Replication of Winterich, Mittal, and Morales (2014)

Tamar Kugler; Charles N. Noussair; Denton Hatch

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Does Disgust Increase Unethical Behavior? A Replication of Winterich, Mittal, and Morales (2014)

Tamar Kugler, Charles N. Noussair, Denton Hatch

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Abstract

We consider the relationship between disgust and ethical behavior. Winterich, Mittal, and Morales report several experiments finding that disgust increases unethical behavior. We replicated three of their studies, using high-powered designs with a total of 1,239 participants, three different procedures to induce disgust, and three different measures of unethical behavior. We observe no effect of disgust on unethical behavior in any of the studies, supporting the contention that disgust has no effect on ethical decision making.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	938-945
Number of pages	8
Journal	Social Psychological and Personality Science
Volume	12
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620944083
State	Published - Aug 2021

Keywords

disgust
emotion
replication
self-interested behavior
unethical behavior

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Social Psychology
Clinical Psychology

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