Conservatives are more easily disgusted than liberals
- Y. Inbar, David A Pizarro, P. Bloom
- Psychology
- 13 May 2009
The uniquely human emotion of disgust is intimately connected to morality in many, perhaps all, cultures (Rozin, Lowery, Imada, & Haidt, 1999b). We report two studies suggesting that a predisposition…
Political Diversity in Social and Personality Psychology
- Y. Inbar, J. Lammers
- PsychologyPerspectives on Psychological Science
- 10 February 2012
Surprisingly, although only 6% described themselves as conservative “overall,” there was more diversity of political opinion on economic issues and foreign policy and the more liberal respondents were, the more they said they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues.
Disgust sensitivity predicts intuitive disapproval of gays.
- Y. Inbar, David A Pizarro, J. Knobe, P. Bloom
- PsychologyEmotion
- 1 June 2009
The more disgust sensitive participants were, the more likely they were to describe an agent whose behavior had the side effect of causing gay men to kiss in public as having intentionally encouraged gayMen to kiss publicly-even though most participants did not explicitly think it wrong to encourage gay men in public.
Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings
- R. A. Klein, M. Vianello, Brian A. Nosek
- PsychologyAdvances in Methods and Practices in…
- 19 November 2018
We conducted preregistered replications of 28 classic and contemporary published findings, with protocols that were peer reviewed in advance, to examine variation in effect magnitudes across samples…
Evidence for Absolute Moral Opposition to Genetically Modified Food in the United States
- Sydney E. Scott, Y. Inbar, P. Rozin
- PsychologyPerspectives on Psychological Science
- 1 May 2016
“Absolutist” opponents were more disgust sensitive in general and more disgusted by the consumption of genetically modified food than were non-absolUTist opponents or supporters, and disgust predicted support for legal restrictions on genetically modified foods, even after controlling for explicit risk–benefit assessments.
Disgusting smells cause decreased liking of gay men.
- Y. Inbar, David A Pizarro, P. Bloom
- PsychologyEmotion
- 1 February 2012
An induction of disgust can lead to more negative attitudes toward an entire social group: Participants who were exposed to a noxious ambient odor reported less warmth toward gay men. This effect of…
Decision speed and choice regret: When haste feels like waste
- Y. Inbar, Simona Botti, Karlene Hanko
- Psychology
- 1 May 2011
Moral masochism: on the connection between guilt and self-punishment.
- Y. Inbar, David A Pizarro, T. Gilovich, D. Ariely
- PsychologyEmotion
- 1 February 2013
The current results suggest that people who wrote about a past guilt-inducing event inflicted more intense electric shocks on themselves than did those who write about feeling sad or about a neutral event.
Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most
- Philip M. Fernbach, N. Light, Sydney E. Scott, Y. Inbar, P. Rozin
- PsychologyNature Human Behaviour
- 14 January 2019
In the United States, France and Germany, as peoples’ opposition to genetically modified (GM) foods becomes more extreme, their self-rated understanding of genetic modification increases, but objectively, their knowledge of the science behind genetic modification tends to be poorer.
People's intuitions about intuitive insight and intuitive choice.
- Y. Inbar, Jeremy Cone, T. Gilovich
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 August 2010
This framework accurately predicts people's choices in variants of both the ratio-bias and ambiguity-aversion paradigms, and focuses on the relationship between the task cuing account, other decision-making models, and dual-process accounts of cognition.
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