Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Jun;37(3):315-6. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13002598.

Disgust, politics, and responses to threat.

Inbar Y1, Pizarro D2.

Author information

• 1Department of Social Psychology,Tilburg University,NL-5000 LE Tilburg,The Netherlands.yinbar@uvt.nlhttp://yoelinbar.net.
• 2Department of Psychology,Cornell University,Ithaca,NY 14853.dap54@cornell.eduhttp://peezer.net.

Abstract

We address two questions regarding the relationship between political ideology and responses to threatening or aversive stimuli. The first concerns the reason for the connection between disgust and specific political and moral attitudes; the second concerns the observation that some responses to threat (i.e., neuroticism/anxiety) are associated with a more left-wing political orientation.