Sensitive to Disgust? Then You're Probably a Right-Wing Nut Job
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The British Psychological Society is reporting that People sensitive to disgust are more likely to hold right-wing views
People who are sensitive to interpersonal disgust – for example, they dislike sitting on a bus seat left warm by a stranger – are more likely to hold right-wing attitudes and to be racist.
Fortunately, if you’re like me and you’re disgusted by monkey eating, dead person touching and bestiality watching, you’re safe.
Other types of disgust sensitivity, such as aversion to eating monkey meat (core disgust) to touching dead bodies (death-related disgust) and to people watching pornography involving animals (sex-related disgust) were correlated with interpersonal disgust, but did not themselves predict racist or prejudice attitudes once levels of interpersonal disgust were taken into account.
