Moral Foundations Questionnaire-2.
MFQ-2
- What it measures
- Revised Moral Foundations Theory with 6 foundations: Care, Equality, Proportionality (Fairness split into Equality + Proportionality), Loyalty, Authority, Purity
- Length and format
- 36 (6 per foundation). single 5-point agreement format (the older relevance/judgement split was dropped) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 25+ populations in development; rapidly translated (e.g. Turkish, Persian, and others validated within ~2 years of release)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Atari, M., Haidt, J., Graham, J., et al. (2023). Morality beyond the WEIRD: How the nomological network of morality varies across cultures / MFQ-2 validation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology / Personality and Individual Differences.
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