Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism

By Jesse Graham, Jonathan Haidt, Spassena P. Koleva, Matt Motyl, Ravi Iyer, S. Wojcik, Peter H. Ditto. 2012

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Re-imagining Algorithmic Fairness in India and Beyond (2021, background): “Other moral foundations [80] of cultural importance may often be overlooked by the West, including purity/sanctity.”
Persuasion for Good: Towards a Personalized Persuasive Dialogue System for Social Good (2019, background): “general more likely to comply with the persuasive request (Hoover et al., 2018; Graham et al., 2013).”
Beyond Distributive Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making: Feature Selection for Procedurally Fair Learning (2018, result): “This suggests that liberal users may be more sensitive to disparate outcomes, which is consistent with literature in the social sciences indicating that different political views may relate to different “moral foundations” (Graham et al. 2012).”
A Survey on Evaluation of Large Language Models (2023, background): “In addition, LLMs like GPT-3 were found to have moral biases (Simmons, 2022) in terms of the Moral Foundation theory (Graham et al., 2013); ChatGPT was also observed to exhibit somewhat bias on cultural values (Cao et al.”
How Ideological Migration Geographically Segregates Groups (2014, neutral): “implies the core values that span most of a person's moral worldview and that there are important differences between people who adhere to one worldview or another (Graham et al., 2013; Jost et al., 2003; Jost, 2009).”
The effect of messaging and gender on intentions to wear a face covering to slow down COVID-19 transmission (2020, background): “While these are important dimensions of morality, they are not the only ones (Graham et al. 2013; Haidt, 2012; Haidt & Joseph, 2004; Curry, 2016; Curry et al. 2019).”
Natural Language Processing with Commonsense Knowledge: A Survey (2021, background): “[30] is a dataset that encompasses annotations of news articles to analyze how different media ideologies report moral events, which are defined as events with moral implications, rooted in Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) [42]– [44], which includes polarities such as Care/Harm and Fairness/Cheating.”
Dual Process Th eories (2013, background): “Moral intuitions are claimed to be partly innate and partly shaped by culture, involving different dimensions such as care/harm and loyalty/betrayal (see Moral Foundations Theory; Graham et al., 2013).”
Legitimacy‐as‐Feeling: How Affect Leads to Vertical Legitimacy Spillovers in Transnational Governance (2014, neutral): “This argument is in line with social psychology research that depicts an ideal as being structured around a set of basic and universally available moral concepts involving generalized notions of care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority, and purity (Graham et al., 2013; Haidt and Joseph, 2007).”
Kinship Systems, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Culture (2018, neutral): “The full Moral Foundations Questionnaire can be accessed here: http://www.moralfoundations.org/questionnaires.”
Unique and shared relationship benefits of consensually non-monogamous and monogamous relationships: A review and insights for moving forward. (2017, background): “Morality in psychology is popularly thought of as five aspects that drive moral cognition, including care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and purity (Moral Foundations Theory; Graham et al., 2013).”