Morrison et al Reading

Question 1

What are the 3 forms of disgust?

Answer 1

1) Pathogen
2) Sexual
3) Moral

Question 2

What are the 2 definitions of sexual disgust?

Answer 2

1) Evolved to maximize reproductive success through avoidance of partners and behaviours that are biologically costly
2) rooted in an absence of benign sexual variation-individuals prone to sexual disgust tend to embrace the idea that there is a universal system that works for everyone

Question 3

What is moral disgust?

Answer 3

Concerns social transgressions seen as non-normative and anti-social (bodily and non-bodily)

Question 4

What is bodily moral disgust?

Answer 4

Activated when individuals believe that a sexual practice is taboo

Question 5

What is dehumanization?

Answer 5

Failure to consider the consciousness and lived experience of another person; essentially denying humanity.

Question 6

What does dehumanization rely on?

Answer 6

An individuals ability to categorize using ingroup and outgroup schemas

Question 7

What happens in the brain when a target is considered less than human?

Answer 7

Activates the medial prefrontal cortex, which is associated with disgust.

Question 8

What do both dehumanization and disgust involve?

Answer 8

Keeping “other” individuals in their subordinate place.

Question 9

What is infrahumanization?

Answer 9

In comparison to the ingroup, the outgroup is more emotionally animalistic. Primary emotions (happiness and sadness), are attributed to both groups whereas secondary emotions (uniquely human) apply to ingroup only.

Question 10

What is the interspecies model of prejudice?

Answer 10

Linkages among attitudes towards non-human animals, dehumanization of marginalized social groups, and elicitation of disgust.

Question 11

What plays a unique role in homonegativity?

Answer 11

Disgust

Question 12

What are greater levels of disgust associated with?

Answer 12

More negative attitudes towards PDA and homonegativity