Intentions to avoid sibling incest : the roles of disgust, anticipated guilt, and moral judgment
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- Ann De Buck (UGent) and Lieven Pauwels (UGent)
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- This study explores how disgust felt in response to a hypothetical scenario of sibling incest relates to individuals' intentions to avoid such behavior. A path model was employed to examine both direct and indirect associations: a direct route between felt disgust and intentions to engage in sibling incest, and indirect routes through anticipated guilt and moral judgment of the act. Self-reported data were gathered from 1,437 undergraduate participants who read a vignette about sibling incest involving the characters Julie and Mark, originally developed by Haidt and colleagues. The findings show that felt disgust is associated with intentions to avoid sibling incest, directly and indirectly, with moral judgment and anticipated guilt serving as intermediary variables. This study highlights the role of disgust as a protective response, acting both as a personal deterrent and a social mechanism that reinforces the moral norm against sibling incest. The study also discusses its relevance, limitations, and potential directions for future research.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01JC0JR13C300ZAKDF9NEZZHY8
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- De Buck, Ann, and Lieven Pauwels. “Intentions to Avoid Sibling Incest : The Roles of Disgust, Anticipated Guilt, and Moral Judgment.” CrimRxiv, 2024, doi:10.21428/cb6ab371.5470e177.
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- De Buck, A., & Pauwels, L. (2024). Intentions to avoid sibling incest : the roles of disgust, anticipated guilt, and moral judgment. https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.5470e177
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- De Buck, Ann, and Lieven Pauwels. 2024. “Intentions to Avoid Sibling Incest : The Roles of Disgust, Anticipated Guilt, and Moral Judgment.” CrimRxiv. https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.5470e177.
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- De Buck, Ann, and Lieven Pauwels. 2024. “Intentions to Avoid Sibling Incest : The Roles of Disgust, Anticipated Guilt, and Moral Judgment.” CrimRxiv. doi:10.21428/cb6ab371.5470e177.
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- 1.De Buck A, Pauwels L. Intentions to avoid sibling incest : the roles of disgust, anticipated guilt, and moral judgment. CrimRxiv. 2024.
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- [1]A. De Buck and L. Pauwels, “Intentions to avoid sibling incest : the roles of disgust, anticipated guilt, and moral judgment,” CrimRxiv. 2024.
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abstract = {{This study explores how disgust felt in response to a hypothetical scenario of sibling incest relates to individuals' intentions to avoid such behavior. A path model was employed to examine both direct and indirect associations: a direct route between felt disgust and intentions to engage in sibling incest, and indirect routes through anticipated guilt and moral judgment of the act. Self-reported data were gathered from 1,437 undergraduate participants who read a vignette about sibling incest involving the characters Julie and Mark, originally developed by Haidt and colleagues. The findings show that felt disgust is associated with intentions to avoid sibling incest, directly and indirectly, with moral judgment and anticipated guilt serving as intermediary variables. This study highlights the role of disgust as a protective response, acting both as a personal deterrent and a social mechanism that reinforces the moral norm against sibling incest. The study also discusses its relevance, limitations, and potential directions for future research.}},
author = {{De Buck, Ann and Pauwels, Lieven}},
language = {{eng}},
series = {{CrimRxiv}},
title = {{Intentions to avoid sibling incest : the roles of disgust, anticipated guilt, and moral judgment}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.5470e177}},
year = {{2024}},
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