Conservatives like cleanliness

If a person always winces when he sees an insect or nausea when he steps on the blood, he tends to pursue conservative views in life.

Many studies show the link between behavior and human perspective. For example, a test conducted last year showed that we will judge everything more fair when the body is clean. Another study shows that politically conservative living spaces are often clean and tidy, while radical viewers like colorful and messy living spaces.

In a new study, psychology professor David Pizarro and colleagues interviewed 181 adults in many US states on social issues with a scale of disgust Sensitivity Scale (DSS for short). ). DSS offers situations that can cause disgust in humans, such as scenes of scavengers, children bathing in dirty ditches, or thugs bleeding from fighting. Analysis results show that people with high levels of disgust always oppose same-sex marriage and abortion - supposedly conservative expressions.

The team then interviewed 91 Cornell University students about their views on many social issues such as the role of unions, gun control, tax reduction, abortion. 91 students were also asked to express their level of disgust in situations in the DSS. The results show that people with high levels of disgust also pursue conservative views, such as supporting gun control and a ban on same-sex marriages.

Pizarro thinks that disgust has a different role in seeing the problem between conservatives and radicals. Conservatives suffer from the feeling of disgust when evaluating things. Therefore, even if there is no specific and reasonable reason, they still recognize all problems according to their feelings. Meanwhile, the perspective of the radical is not dependent on sentiment. They only object to a certain phenomenon (like same-sex marriage) if there is evidence that the phenomenon is really harmful to society. Studying the relationship between disgust and a living perspective can help psychologists explain the big differences in moral evaluation.

'For years the scientific community has agreed that the moral values ​​of people are influenced by emotions. It seems disgusting to be one of the emotional states involved in the process of assessing our affairs , 'concludes Pizarro.