 In a second experiment, Nichols sought to confirm that it was the emotion of disgust that was responsible for the fact that participants in the first experiment treated disgusting transgressions like prototypical moral transgressions, rather than like prototypical conventional transgressions. To do this, he employed the same experimental strategy used in the first experiment, and then asked participants to fill out a questionnaire that assesses sensitivity to disgusting stimuli. He found that participants who scored high on the disgust sensitivity scale rated the disgusting transgressions as significantly more serious than participants who scored low on disgust sensitivity. Moreover, the low disgust-sensitivity participants were more likely than the high disgust-sensitivity participants to judge that the disgusting transgressions were authority contingent (2002: 231).