Disgust sensitivity selectively predicts attitudes toward groups that threaten (or uphold) traditional sexual morality

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 218-223

  Crawford, Jarret T ^a   Inbar, Yoel ^b   Maloney, Victoria ^a  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disgust sensitivity; Intergroup attitudes; Prejudice; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905222213     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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