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Abstract
This article shows how descriptive imagery can be used to hijack evolved psychological instincts and prejudice the judgment of others, particularly in the legal and political domains. By mimicking the cues that represented threats to our ancestors, those wishing to color the perception of others can subtly trigger the affective responses that evolved to help navigate ancestral threats. When this happens, logic may be unseated in favor of deep-seated instinctual responses, often to a problematic degree. In this way, lawyers, politicians, and activists, taking a page out of the playbook of novelists and other storytellers, can weaponize words, images, descriptions, and narratives to, often improperly, sway the opinions of others.

Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword by Owen Jones -- Part I: Introductions -- Chapter 1 Disgust and the Law -- Chapter 2 Tools for Excavation: The Evolutionary Framework -- Chapter 3 The Emotions -- Part II: Disgust -- Chapter 4 What to Eat? -- Chapter 5 What to Touch? -- Chapter 6 With whom to Mate? -- Chapter 7 A New Model -- Part III: Morality -- Chapter 8 Disgust and Morality -- Part IV: From Intuitions to Institutions -- Chapter 9 Don't Eat, Don't Touch, Don't Mate -- Chapter 10 Obscenity -- Chapter 11 Disgust as Moral Weapon -- Chapter 12 Relationships -- Chapter 13 Closing Arguments