[New post] We feel more disgusted by people who don’t share our political views

BPS Research Digest posted: " By Emily Reynolds Our politics play a significant role in the way we interact with others. We can be dismissive or intolerant of those with different politics to us — and research from 2020 even found that we prefer strangers who share our politics to" New post on Research Digest We feel more disgusted by people who don't share our political views by BPS Research Digest By Emily Reynolds Our politics play a significant role in the way we interact with others. We can be dismissive or intolerant of those with different politics to us — and research from 2020 even found that we prefer strangers who share our politics to actual friends who don't. New research, published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, finds that this dislike can go beyond mere intolerance: the team finds that we can even feel physical disgust towards members of political outgroups — with potential repercussions to how we treat our political rivals. Read more of this post BPS Research Digest | February 3, 2022 at 11:12 am | Categories: Emotion, Political | URL: https://wp.me/p7Lf0f-bM9 Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Research Digest. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2022/02/03/we-feel-more-disgusted-by-people-who-dont-share-our-political-views/