This project has two groups of undergraduate students at the Illinois Institute of Technology replicating Eskine, Kacinik, and Prinz 2011 study: Bad Taste in the Mouth: Gustatory Disgust Influences Moral Judgement as part of Dr Nikki Legate's research methods course. The 2017 group - Jigar Dedhia, Yi-Ting Lei, Pranathi Merneedi, and Loretta Sutkus - was supervised by Nikki and Elizabeth Howard, the TA for the course. They collected data on 24 subjects, all IIT students receiving course credit (as in the original study). The 2018 group - Brittany Mcbrien, Srushti Pai, Citlalli Bueno, Zan Syed - is being supervised by Nikki and Frank Shu, the TA for the course. Our target sample is 35 IIT students, recruited through the SONA system in exchange for course credit. To to boost participant recruitment we will offer the incentive of a candy bar or bag chips to students who are not currently in a psychology course. To assess moral judgement we will be using two counterbalanced orders of the original moral vignettes, both uploaded to this OSF page. We will be using the Imageability distractor task based on the description of the task in Eskine et al. (2011), and used by the other replications. All other experimental procedures will be the same as the original study. Videos of both 2017 and 2018 replication groups can be found on this page. ### Abstract Can sweet-tasting substances trigger kind, favorable judgments about other people? What about substances that are disgusting and bitter? Various studies have linked physical disgust to moral disgust, but despite the rich and sometimes striking findings these studies have yielded, no research has explored morality in conjunction with taste, which can vary greatly and may differentially affect cognition. The research reported here tested the effects of taste perception on moral judgments. After consuming a sweet beverage, a bitter beverage, or water, participants rated a variety of moral transgressions. Results showed that taste perception significantly affected moral judgments, such that physical disgust (induced via a bitter taste) elicited feelings of moral disgust. Further, this effect was more pronounced in participants with politically conservative views than in participants with politically liberal views. Taken together, these differential findings suggest that embodied gustatory experiences may affect moral processing more than previously thought. ### Study Materials In the Files section, we have the original.... * [Vignettes](https://osf.io/t4jxs/) * [Manipulation Check](https://osf.io/wbjgd/) * Informed consent for the [Water](https://osf.io/x3u7s/), [Juice](https://osf.io/3xucz/), and [Bitters](https://osf.io/znkgv/) conditions ### Recommendation from the original author "I recommend your students practice "selling" the cover story as described in the methods." ### Notes from CREP Team To obtain a CREP replication reward the minimum N for this project is 57. **Cover Story**. Some questions arose during the course of the replication in regards to the cover story. It is described in the paper and in the informed consent form. Because we could not get in touch with the original author, we have created a new cover story based on the consent form and the method of the paper. Please read the following to participants: "In this study you will be asked to read several vignettes and make judgments about the characters in them. Your job will be to judge the actions of the characters. During this task, you will be asked to drink a beverage. The purpose of this study is to determine whether motor movements involved with drinking influence your judgments while reading about others. In order to successfully attain this, please drink each dose in a single swift motion, as if you were drinking a shot." **Swedish Bitter** The brand of the Swedish Bitter was not identified, and we could not get in touch with the original author. Given that Swedish Bitters are likely comparable, we suggest any brand to be acceptable for this study. **Distractor Task** The original paper also describes a distraction task. One of our replication teams developed a distractor task to match as closely as possible as what was described in the methods. It is available [here][1]. [1]: https://osf.io/3qtax/