The Role of Disgust in Norms, and of Norms in Disgust Research: Why Liberals Shouldn’t be Morally Disgusted by Moral Disgust

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Jason A. Clark1, Daniel M. T. Fessler2
1Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrück, Germany
2Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

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