Measuring Morality

This is a simple survey which asks you to categorise 100 English words in a set of moral categories:

1. Care - caring for others
2. Harm - hurting others
3. Fairness - Acting fairly and honestly
4. Unfairness - Acting unfairly and dishonestly
5. Loyalty - Showing loyalty to your community
6. Betrayal - Betraying your community
7. Respect - Respecting authority
8. Subersion - Disobeying authority
9. Purity - Keeping a pure body and mind
10. Impurity - Degradation of body and mind
11. Liberty - Respecting individual freedom
12. Oppression - Exerting control over other people
13. Moral - Morally "good" with no specific category above
14. Immoral - Morally "bad" with no specific category above
15. None of the above - No moral significance

This work is based on the Moral Foundations Theory of Haidt and Graham.

This experiment is being run by:

Dr Malcolm Ryan - Dept of Computing, Macquarie University. 

malcolm.ryan@mq.edu.au

Dr Stephanie Howarth - Dept of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University

stepahine.howarth@mq.edu.au

Please contact us if you have any questions about the research.