# The unusual politics of disgust - David Pizarro

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Podcast: [TED-Ed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ted-ed-7859430)
Published: 2026-07-16T06:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG3521587017.mp3
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Duration seconds: 1187

## Resource

What does a disgusting image have to do with how you vote? Equipped with surveys and experiments, psychologist David Pizarro demonstrates a correlation between sensitivity to disgusting cues -- a photo of feces, an unpleasant odor -- and moral and political conservatism. (Filmed at TEDxEast.) Talk by David Pizarro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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