Bad behaviour leaves a bad taste

[Swede]

The idea that immoral behaviour "leaves a bad taste in your mouth" is more than just a metaphor, say psychologists at the University of Toronto, who have shown that immorality triggers the same primitive reactions that helped early humans avoid poison and infection.

Distasteful drinks, repulsive photos and unfair financial treatment all evoked the same primitive response in their experiments -- the unmistakable grimace of disgust.

"People feel it very strongly and viscerally," says Hanah Chapman, lead author of the study published today in the journal Science. It suggests revulsion to unfair financial dealings -- be it overpayment of executives or brokers peddling toxic mortgages -- taps into powerful and primitive emotions more commonly associated with cockroaches, filth and disease.



http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/behaviour+leaves+taste/1336270/story.html?id=1336270

[Warpy]

1. Executives and cockroaches, filth and disease in the same sentence

This article pretty much says it all.

As long as we can tie all this stuff to the GOP, we might have a chance at getting our country back.

[gtar100]

2. And those who get used to it are corrupted physically, emotionally, and psychologically.

It's why those who feed off of corruption, who are willing to take advantage of other people, use people, have that look. It's unmistakable. Very few can hide it for long or fool everyone with their act. In a religious forum this might be called corruption of the soul, but in a science forum, what? There must be an instinct within humans that just knows the right balance with nature and when that balance is upset, discontent and disease set in. Our contemporary minds tend to separate us from a natural order and from the need to honor that which sustains us. But our psychology and interrelationships are just as much children of the natural world as our physical bodies. There is hope yet for self-correction. But geez, this type of corruption has been going on for all of recorded history. I sure hope we get over it.