Ideas change everything

The strange politics of disgust

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David Pizarro |

TEDxEast

• May 2012

What does a disgusting image have to do with how you vote? Equipped with surveys and experiments, psychologist David Pizarro demonstrates a correlation between your sensitivity to disgusting cues -- a photo of feces, an unpleasant odor -- and your own moral or political conservatism.

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What does a disgusting image have to do with how you vote? Equipped with surveys and experiments, psychologist David Pizarro demonstrates a correlation between your sensitivity to disgusting cues -- a photo of feces, an unpleasant odor -- and your own moral or political conservatism.

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Psychologist, Disgust researcher

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David Pizarro is a psychologist interested in how certain emotions (disgust, fear, anger) affect our moral judgment.

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