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====== Dirty Liberals! ======


Dirty Liberals! : Reminders of Physical Cleanliness Influence Moral and Political Attitudes\\
Erik G. Helzer and David A. Pizarro\\
Psychological Science published online 18 March 2011\\
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611402514\\

<blockquote Abstract>
Many moral codes place a special emphasis on bodily purity, and manipulations that directly target bodily purity have been
shown to influence a variety of moral judgments. Across two studies, we demonstrated that reminders of physical purity
influence specific moral judgments regarding behaviors in the sexual domain as well as broad political attitudes. In Study 1,
individuals in a public setting who were given a reminder of physical cleansing reported being more politically conservative
than did individuals who were not given such a reminder. In Study 2, individuals reminded of physical cleansing in the laboratory
demonstrated harsher moral judgments toward violations of sexual purity and were more likely to report being politically
conservative than control participants. Together, these experiments provide further evidence of a deep link between physical
purity and moral judgment, and they offer preliminary evidence that manipulations of physical purity can influence general (and
putatively stable) political attitudes.
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