Morals – Monday Meme

[via ramblingperfectionist.]

Actually, this is not really a meme but a study by the University of Virginia. In any case, it’s interesting. You can find it here. My scores are the green ones.

My Moral Foundations

The scale is a measure of your reliance on and endorsement of five psychological foundations of morality that seem to be found across cultures. Each of the two parts of the scale contained four questions related to each foundation: 1) harm/care, 2) fairness/reciprocity (including issues of rights), 3) ingroup/loyalty, 4) authority/respect, and 5) purity/sanctity.

Then they look more closely at fairness and liberty:

7 comments

  1. Ah, more interesting in your case because it reveals rather stronger tendencies. Although I guess that isn’t too much of a surprise. Mine weren’t really a surprise at all.

      • Harm: 4.2 (= like you)
        Fairness: 4.4 (this means I am destinied to have a froody law job)
        Loyalty: 3.3
        Authority: 2.7
        Purity: 1.3 (your 0.2 is *that* cool.)

        Now we know eeeeverything. ^^
        But I thought it really interesting to really define 5 pillars of morality… If you had asked me to define “morality”, I’d probably have named the first two figures (not doing harm and being fair) only.

        • Yeah, the five pillars themselves were interesting.

          I would have probably gone for Harm, Fairness, Truthfulness, Willingness/Liberty (meaning: was anybody forced into doing something) and Loyalty. But that’s just a first thought that I might need to revise a couple of times yet.

          I know that purity is an issue for many people, but I couldn’t give a rat’s ass. :)

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