In the realm of moral psychology, there is a contentious debate concerning the linkage between moral contents, such as moral transgressions, and a specific set of moral emotions, including disgust and anger. Researchers argue that to comprehend this relationship, it is crucial to examine how individuals evaluate these moral situations to predict diverse socio-moral outcomes (Hutcherson and Gross, 2011). In this study, we aimed to test whether eliciting individuals to focus on either the perpetrator or the victim of a transgression would evoke differing sociomoral responses to moral transgressions. Participants were presented with a series of vignettes depicting moral transgressions and were asked to assess whether third-party emotional reactions, inferred from images portraying facial emotions of a man or woman, dovetailed with the eyewitness's reaction to the transgression. Drawing upon Clifford et al. (2015) moral contents, the vignettes were tailored to either highlight the victim (e.g., A person is being tripped on the street) or the perpetrator (e.g., A person is tripping someone on the street). The assessment included five items on harm, four on humiliation, four on unfairness, four on abandonment, and three on betrayal, . Our hypothesis was that focusing on the perpetrator would highlight their poor moral character and distancing signals generally associated with disgust (Giner-Sorolla and Chapman, 2017), while attention on the victim should emphasize the harmful action and the victim’s personal distress, more strongly linked with anger (Giner-Sorolla and Chapman, 2017). The findings indicated that the condition prompting participants to focus on the victim consistently elicited stronger expressions and quicker reaction times of anger compared to disgust. The data concerning disgust were more mitigated. Disgust was favored over a neutral emotion solely in instances of moral transgression as opposed to the control condition, and as expected, this was only observed within the perpetrator-focused