TY - JOUR
T1 - Does Disgust Increase Unethical Behavior? A Replication of Winterich, Mittal, and Morales (2014)
AU - Kugler, Tamar
AU - Noussair, Charles N.
AU - Hatch, Denton
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: We are grateful for financial support from University of Arizona’s Eller College Center for Leadership Ethics and from the Economic Science Laboratory at the University of Arizona.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - disgust
KW - emotion
KW - replication
KW - self-interested behavior
KW - unethical behavior
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U2 - 10.1177/1948550620944083
DO - 10.1177/1948550620944083
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088990522
VL - 12
SP - 938
EP - 945
JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science
JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science
SN - 1948-5506
IS - 6
ER -