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I Think the Role of Disdain Contempt and Disgust in Promoting Belief Has Been Under Appreciated
i think that disdain contempt and disgust have been under appreciated as separating motivational factors yes. If someone's afraid of you that's not exactly offensive i mean you might regard it as unfortunate but there's also a kind of implicit respect we have a little bit of dominance and if they're disgusted by you or disdainful of you that means that you're in the contemptible and rotting category essentially. This is something that we need to be thinking about whenever we broadcast these silly beliefs that no one believes in right? What blows my mind is that the data are freely available you can see what the majority of americans believe about the police or voter id laws or drugs or what have you uh and the