Lecture: The Good, The Bad, and The Dirty

A lecture by Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor David Pizzarro (Cornell University).

In recent years a great deal of psychological research has highlighted the powerful role emotions play in shaping our attitudes and judgments. Evidence has been found that individuals who are more easily disgusted in everyday life tend to have different moral and political views than those who are less easily disgusted. This research helps shed light on how basic differences in emotion can give rise to differences in our judgments about the social world that surrounds us.