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Disgusting decision-making with Yoel Inbar

The Decision Corner

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How Do You Feel Disgust?

We all have these basic emotional resonances that could be tied to specific groups, for practices or not. Some people feel the sensation of disgust much more acutely and intensely than other people in society. How does that affect the way that we form beliefs? Yes. People globally describe themselves as more politically conservative, but that seems to be motivated by what we call social conservatism, or traditionalism. There are some examples that we've talked about where disgust provides us useful information - it helps us to demonstrate social accordance with social norms. But also instances where the input that it provides is not all that useful in informing beliefs.

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