The Correlation Between Disgust and Social Intolérance

Psychological research shows a strong correlation between high disgust sensitivity and socially intolerant attitudes. People who don't like other people's religions or ways of life are far more likely than other people to also have very strong disgust responses. Core disgust and animal reminder disgust, the two that we've been talking about,Other kinds of disgust, like different kinds of moral disgust, those are more strongly correlated with people who have what you might call socially tolerant views.