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Moral Foundations Theory Anchor List

Source: R/data.R
mft_anchors.Rd

Anchors for the various categories of 6 categories from moral foundations theory: authority, fairness, harm, ingroup, purity, and morality (in general). The first 5 are bipolar and thus can be used to create semantic direction. The last category, morality (in general), is unipolar and can be used to create a semantic centroid. The bipolar categories are divided into "virtue" (pole1) and "vice" (pole2), for example, for the category "authority" the term loyalty is on the virtue side (pole1) while betrayal is on the vice side (pole2).

Format

A data frame with 365 rows and 3 variables.

Source

https://doi.org/10.1037/a0015141

Variables

  • pole1. unique word (only unigrams), corresponding to the "virtue" side for bipolar concepts

  • pole2. unique word (only unigrams), corresponding to the "vice" side for bipolar concepts

  • relation. the specific moral category, i.e. "foundation," either authority, fairness, harm, ingroup, purity, or morality

References

Graham, J., Haidt, J., & Nosek, B. A. (2009). Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations. Journal of personality and social psychology, 96(5), 1029.