Mapping the moral domain.
University of Southern California · University of Virginia · +1 more institution
Abstract
The moral domain is broader than the empathy and justice concerns assessed by existing measures of moral competence, and it is not just a subset of the values assessed by value inventories. To fill the need for reliable and theoretically grounded measurement of the full range of moral concerns, we developed the Moral Foundations Questionnaire on the basis of a theoretical model of 5 universally available (but variably developed) sets of moral intuitions: Harm/Care, Fairness/Reciprocity, Ingroup/Loyalty, Authority/Respect, and Purity/Sanctity. We present evidence for the internal and external validity of the scale and the model, and in doing so we present new findings about morality: (a) Comparative model…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 32.23
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 91
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6Topics & keywords
- Psychology
- Social psychology
- Morality
- Moral development
- Moral reasoning
- Moral psychology
- Social cognitive theory of morality
- Moral disengagement
- Reduced inequalities