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Is Disgust Related to Morality? - JSTOR Daily

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The disgust response acts as a behavioral immune system, protecting us from disease, but produces strong reactions to perceived out-groups. Annual religious events around the world call for mass gatherings, some solemn and pious, others exultant, many drawing participants from multiple countries. They can lead to injury, infection, and on-site or off-site death. This grim reality has inspired a new branch of health care: mass gathering medicine. Nick Hopkins and Stephen Reicher, leading figures in this growing field, and others have found that mass gatherings have many common features. One set of common features consists of practical and logistical hazards (such as stampedes); another set involves the fact that our natural inclination to avoid others (caution and repulsion), experienced when we find ourselves shoulder-to-shoulder with many other people, tends to disappear in mass gatherings. Why do we tend to drop our typical strong reaction to being surrounded by strangers when we wan

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Annual religious events around the world call for mass gatherings, some solemn and pious, others exultant, many drawing participants from multiple countries. They can lead to injury, infection, and on-site or off-site death. This grim reality has inspired a new branch of health care: mass gathering medicine . Nick Hopkins and Stephen Reicher, leading figures in this growing field, and others have found that mass gatherings have many common features. One set of common features consists of practical and logistical hazards (such as s

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