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**Replication Information** This page will contain all the study materials and data from a replication of Eskine, Kacinik, and Prinz (2011). This replication is being carried out by several Psychology majors at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA as part of our Advanced Statistics and Research Design Class under the supervision of Dr. Heidi McLaughlin. The primary researchers involved with this project are David Redman (redmande@plu.edu) and Justin Evans (evansjb@plu.edu). If there are further inquiries about this project please contact one of the researchers or Dr. McLaughlin (mclaughd@plu.edu) **Deviations from Original Study** We followed the original protocol of the Eskine et al. (2011) study, and only after the original instruments and measures are completed have we added our own additional measures. Specific deviations from the original study include; an additional political identification question and scale for more accurate participant response, a double blind procedure where one experimenter only interacts with the materials and is the only one who knows the specific beverage conditions prior to the data collection session and the other experimenter only interacts with the participant, randomizing the order of scenarios for each participant, and the addition of an Islamophobia measure after the original studies instruments and measures are completed. This additional variable does not affect any of the original procedures. We used the original materials provided by CREP and some of the modified materials by the CREP team from Wesleyan University. Additionally, we received some clarification and assistance from Dr. Kathleen Schmidt and her social psychology laboratory at Wesleyan University. The original study was unclear on how they performed the counterbalancing of the vignette our solution was to randomly order them for each participant. **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. We hypothesize that those who experience greater gustatory disgust will make stronger judgments of moral disgust than will those who show lower levels of taste sensitivity. Additionally, the levels of moral judgement will be higher for those who identify as politically conservative over liberal. Additionally, for the Islamophobia measure we expect that those who experience greater gustatory disgust will have higher levels of Islamophobia than will those who show lower levels of taste sensitivity and those that identify as politically conservative will have higher levels than other political ideologies. **Study Materials** In the Files section, please find our version of the original document materials; - Informed Consent - Vignettes - Distractor Task - Manipulation Check - Islamophobia Measure - Debriefing
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