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SUMMARY:Emotions as Moral Character Trackers - Roger Giner-Sorolla\, Unive
 rsity of Kent at Canterbury
DTSTART:20260313T163000Z
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CONTACT:Psychology Reception
DESCRIPTION:The often irrational role of moral disgust in judgment has rec
 eived a great deal of research and controversy. I will present research fr
 om our lab arguing that disgust — or an emotional state identified by pe
 ople as "disgust" — plays a key role in tracking the moral fitness of pe
 ople's character\, reacting preferentially to situations that show bad cha
 racter without necessarily involving harmful consequences. After presentin
 g primary evidence for this proposition\, and for parallel outcomes with p
 ositive emotions that track character (e.g. Elevation)\, I will try to the
 oretically harmonize these findings to other research showing a bodily foc
 us for moral disgust. Finally\, I will return to address the question of s
 imilarities among emotions labelled "disgust\," presenting a review of cro
 ss-cultural research that suggests a hidden emotion class of character-tra
 cking emotion given various translations in various languages\, and distin
 ct in its own way from core physical disgust and the behavioural immune sy
 stem.\n\nHost: Prof Simone Schnall \n\nThis talk will be recorded and uplo
 aded to the Zangwill Club "Youtube channel":https://https://www.youtube.co
 m/@zangwill_club in due course.
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of  Psychology
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