Beyond outrage: observers anticipate different behaviors from expressors of anger versus disgust

Fan, L, Molho, C, Kupfer, TR ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1147-6082, Sauter, DA and Tybur, JM, 2024. Beyond outrage: observers anticipate different behaviors from expressors of anger versus disgust. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 15 (4), pp. 450-460. ISSN 1948-5506

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Abstract

The modern world affords unprecedented opportunities for individuals to express moral sentiments. The widespread distribution of one specific type of sentiment-outrage-has consequences for social and political harmony. The current investigation contributes to better understanding these consequences by examining what types of aggression people expect from the outraged. Furthermore, it delineates how these expectations are shaped by the emotion used to express outrage. Three pre-registered studies (N's = 800, 1630, 1100) revealed that people infer different types of aggression from individuals who expressed anger nonverb-ally compared with those who expressed disgust nonverbally. Perceptions that the outraged individual was angry corresponded with expectations of direct aggression rather than indirect aggression, whereas perceptions that the outraged individual was disgusted corresponded with expectations of indirect aggression rather than direct aggression. These results revealed that the distinct emotions used to communicate outrage shape observers' expectations of how moral conflicts will unfold.

Item Type: Journal article
Publication Title: Social Psychological and Personality Science
Creators: Fan, L., Molho, C., Kupfer, T.R., Sauter, D.A. and Tybur, J.M.
Publisher: Sage
Date: May 2024
Volume: 15
Number: 4
ISSN: 1948-5506
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10.1177/19485506231176954
DOI
2366202
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Rights: © the author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Divisions: Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by: Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added: 04 Feb 2025 13:38
Last Modified: 04 Feb 2025 13:38
URI: https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52967

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