第46回KG CAPS研究会 4/30 Pamela Taylor 先生（国際教養大学）

講演者：Pamela Taylor 先生

日時：2021年4月30日（金）13:20-15:00

場所：Zoom開催

タイトル：How is the Emotion of “Horror” different from Fear and Moral Disgust?

発表概要：Disasters and catastrophes involve extreme and incomprehensible harm that elicits an intense emotional response that English-speakers often call “horror”. Although traditional emotion taxonomies have categorized horror as a subtype of fear and/or disgust, recent empirical work has indicated that horror is a distinct emotion category. However, the specific qualities that differentiate horror from fear and disgust remain unclear. In three within-subject studies, we tested and found support for the hypothesis that horror, fear and moral disgust are distinct emotions that are elicited by different types of harm. Results indicated that horror is a response to harm that was schema-incongruent (e.g., abnormal, extreme, incomprehensible) and had already occurred, but fear is a response to schema-congruent (i.e., easily recognizable) threats of potential harm, and moral disgust is specifically elicited by blameworthy harm. Horror also involved greater signs of schema-incongruence (e.g., disbelief) and feelings of despair than fear and moral disgust.