Dirty Liberals! Cleanliness Priming of Moral Cognition

2013-08-08 00:00:00

Dr. J. chats with Erik Helzer (Dept of Psychology, Cornell University) co-author of the paper "Dirty Liberals!: Reminders of physical cleanliness influence moral and political attitudes" in Psychological Science. They discuss the growing literature on the ways that political attitudes are driven by disgust sensitivity, and by disgust priming such as bad smells and sticky hands. Listen also to the 2004 Changesurfer interview with Martha Nussbaum about her book Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame and the Law. (First broadcast April 5, 2011)

Dr. J. chats with Erik Helzer (Dept of Psychology, Cornell University) co-author of the paper "Dirty Liberals!: Reminders of physical cleanliness influence moral and political attitudes" in Psychological Science. They discuss the growing literature on the ways that political attitudes are driven by disgust sensitivity, and by disgust priming such as bad smells and sticky hands. Listen also to the 2004 Changesurfer interview with Martha Nussbaum about her book Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame and the Law. (First broadcast April 5, 2011)

http://www.archive.org/download/DirtyLiberalsCleanlinessPrimingOfMoralCognition/20110405helzer.mp3