APS

2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022

You Are Measuring Moral Foundations Wrong, and It Makes a Big Di!Erence

Chicago, IL · May 2022

Poster · Social

  • Alexandra Wormley
    Arizona State University
  • Kevin Grimm
    Arizona State University
  • Mohammad Atari
    University of Southern California
  • Adam Cohen
    Arizona State University

Abstract

Moral foundations theory is hugely influential in moral psychology, and its associated measure has been used on literally millions of participants. We show modeling method factors for judgment vs. relevance items greatly improves model fit. We also show this makes a big di!erence in predicting outcomes like political attitudes.

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