Hanah Chapman

Disgust and Emotion in Morality

My Master’s research focused on the evolutionary psychology of disgust, testing a model which posits that disgust has its roots in the chemical senses and extends to more abstract notions of contamination. My doctoral work is examining the role of emotion in human morality, focusing on the importance of emotional arousal in moral judgment and the specific appraisals that lead to different moral emotions such as disgust, anger, shame, guilt, and contempt. This research program uses peripheral psychophysiology and fMRI as well as behavioural measures to examine the interplay between cognition and emotion in morality, both in healthy volunteers and in select clinical populations with disregulation of emotion systems that may play an important role in morality.

• Chapman, H.A., Kim, D.A., Susskind, J.M. & Anderson, A.K. (In press). In Bad Taste: Evidence for the Oral Origins for Moral Disgust. Science.