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From disgust to contempt-speech: The nature of contempt on the map of prejudicial emotions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2017

Michal Bilewicz ,
Olga Katarzyna Kamińska ,
Mikołaj Winiewski  and
Wiktor Soral
Michal Bilewicz
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland. bilewicz@psych.uw.edu.pl mikk@psych.uw.edu.pl http://cbu.psychologia.pl
Olga Katarzyna Kamińska
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, 03-815 Warsaw, Poland. olgakaminsk@gmail.com
Mikołaj Winiewski
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland. bilewicz@psych.uw.edu.pl mikk@psych.uw.edu.pl http://cbu.psychologia.pl
Wiktor Soral
Affiliation:
Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland. wiktor.soral@gmail.com
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Abstract

Analyzing the contempt as an intergroup emotion, we suggest that contempt and anger are not built upon each other, whereas disgust seems to be the most elementary and specific basic-emotional antecedent of contempt. Concurring with Gervais & Fessler, we suggest that many instances of “hate speech” are in fact instances of “contempt speech” – being based on disgust-driven contempt rather than hate.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e228
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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