David Pizarro: The strange politics of disgust

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

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