Juror decisions are affected by emotions and other unspoken thoughts/feelings. Previous research has shown that people make decisions based on “quick hunches.” The purpose of this study is to see if a disgusting stimulus will influence jurors' decision-making. The research addressed the decision-making question of whether or not jurors' disgust and knee-jerk judgment of the defendant are key elements in legal contexts. This decision will be due to a “rapid instinctive feeling” of disgust attributed or not to the criminal (Schnall, Haidt, Clore and Jordan, 2008). Haidt (1997) suggested that facial expressions used to reject physically disgusting things are also used to reject certain types of people and socially inappropriate behaviors. If facial reactions are the same, then feelings of rejection of a physically disgusting thing and a socially inappropriate person or behavior are related. The feeling aroused by physically disgusting things as well as by socially inappropriate people can be attributed to the same source. Haidt's research established how a disgusting stimulus can be connected to and echo the same cognitive processes that make someone disgusted by a socially inappropriate person. If the same facial reactions are used, it is possible that the actions of a socially inappropriate person could appear disgusting. Along with this research, Rozin, Haidt, and McCauley (2000) proposed the theory of social disgust. They suggest that disgust is easily applied or extended to purely social violations. Disgust often leads to thoughts of contamination and generates feelings of offense and repulsion (Rozin, Haidt, & Fincher, 2009). If disgust is aroused, then the person will...... middle of paper ......ilance: The influence of disgust sensitivity in the moral domain. Emotion, 8(5), 613-627. Lieberman, J.D. (2002). Head on heart or heart on head? Cognitive experiential self-theory and extralegal heuristics in juror decision-making. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 32(12), 2526-2553.Pennington, N. and Hastie, R. (1981). Models of juror decision-making: The generalization gap. Psychological Bulletin, 89(2), 246-287. Pennington, N. and Hastie, R. (1992). Explaining the evidence: Testing the story model for juror decision making. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62 (2), 189-206. Rozin, P., Haidt, J. and Fincher, K. (2009). From oral to moral. Science, 323 (5918), 1179-1180. Schnall, S., Haidt, J., Clore, G.L., & Jordan, A.H. (2008). Disgust as embodied moral judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(8), 1096-1109.