Feelings of disgust may signal partner untrustworthiness to moral judgment.

Evidence

Perhaps disgust acts as a cue – for some people, in some situations – of partner untrustworthiness. This is anecdotally supported by participants hypnotically primed with disgust saying, “It just seems like he’s up to something” in response to an innocuous story (Wheatley & Haidt 2005). — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 433

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Big God/partner-choice framework in the reading purpose — disgust as a partner-choice cue fits the mutualism model being discussed. — connects to: Disgust is not moral in itself; causing it unfairly is. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 665; Incidental feelings like disgust and fatigue bias moral judgments indirectly by skewing cost evaluation. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 666; Trustworthiness carries the moral burden because short-run incentives favor betrayal (+1 more)

Related

• Incidental feelings like disgust and fatigue bias moral judgments indirectly by skewing cost evaluation. (similarity 0.82)
• Genuinely moral partners signal higher reliability than strategically moral ones. (similarity 0.79)
• Disgust is not moral in itself; causing it unfairly is. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Incidental feelings like disgust and fatigue bias moral judgments indirectly by skewing cost evaluation. #complicates (0.80) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 666
• Disgust is not moral in itself; causing it unfairly is. #qualifies (0.75) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 665
• Trustworthiness carries the moral burden because short-run incentives favor betrayal #expands (0.75)
• Moral character and trustworthiness are only weakly correlated #contradicts (0.70)