Tainting the soul: Purity concerns predict moral judgments of suicide.

Highlights: [•] Suicide is unlike many immoral acts, which often involve harm to others. [•] Subjects read and evaluated obituaries describing victims of suicide or homicide. [•] Purity concerns and feelings of disgust account for moral judgments of suicide. [•] Harm-based concerns do not account for moral judgments of suicide, unlike homicide. [•] Explicit justifications do not reflect the underlying source of moral judgments. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]