The Effect Of Core Disgust On The Advice Taking

Disgust,as one of the six basic emotions of human beings,has been evolved to protect people from pathogen by avoiding behavior toward the disgust stimulus.Previous studies have revealed that disgust makes individuals become more self-enclosed and more prone to avoid or reject potential hazards.But whether this tendency of avoidance and rejection can be generalized to the aspect of social interaction remains to be explored.Among all forms of social interaction,advice taking,which is a process of individual referencing others' suggestions and forming their own final decision-making,can be a quite important one.In essence,it is about whether you accept other.Therefore,in this study,the researcher attempts to explore the role of core disgust in advice taking.This study consists of three experiments.In experiment one,the participants were presented with pictures that induce core disgust or neutral emotion.After which the coin estimation task which aims to explore the effect of core disgust on advice seeking and advice taking was used as the paradigm.In this process,the subjects were firstly asked to complete the initial estimation before the emotion activation that followed by the task of re-estimation.The rate of advice seeking and advice taking was measured at the stage of re-estimation.In addition,at the stage of emotion priming,some of the participants were selected at random to record the changes of heart rate before and after watching the pictures.As demonstrated in the result,compared with baseline state,the heart rate of the subjects who watched the core disgust pictures decreased significantly;the rate of advice seeking and advice taking in disgust group was lower than that of neutral group.Based on experiment 1,the quality of advice was introduced as the newindependent variable in the experiment 2 to explore whether the rejection tendency attached to core disgust will be generalized to different advice of high or low quality(i.e.the same rate of rejection to advisers with different abilities).Different from experiment 1,in the re-estimation stage,experiment 2 divides the advice into high quality advice and low quality advice by informing the participants that practice times of the advisers in the initial estimation stage are different.The results showed that,compared with the neutral group,the core disgust group accepted less advice,and the higher the quality of advice was,the more advice subject accepted.The interaction between emotion and quality of advice was significant.Under the condition of high quality,the rate of advice taking in core disgust group was significantly lower than that of neutral group.This suggests that core disgust weakens the impact of advice quality on advice taking.Experiment 3 explored whether individuals in state of core disgust are more sensitive to moral levels of the advisers(i.e.participants in the core aversion state reject more advice from unethical advisers).The results reveal that disgust makes subjects reject more advice.Subjects accept more advice from the adviser of high moral level.The interaction between emotion and morality is not significant.Compared with the results of experiment 2,the moral level of the advisers in disgust condition still plays an important role in advice taking,as subjects were still sensitive to the moral information of the advisers instead of rejecting blindly.In conclusion,core disgust reduces the rate of advice seeking and taking while avoidance and rejection attributes of core disgust are generalized to advisers of different ability to a certain extent.The core disgust reduces the impact of the quality of the advice on the advice taking.However,the subjects are still sensitive to different moral advisers in the state of disgust.Such result shows that there is a unique relationship between disgust and morality.