The Moral Foundations Questionnaire measures moral principles by ratings and agreement items.

Evidence

The MFQ is comprised of two parts. In the first part, participants indicate the extent to which various considerations (e.g., whether or not someone was harmed) are generally relevant to their decision whether something is right or wrong. The second part consists of moral statements (e.g., “It can never be right to kill a human being”), and participants indicate the extent to which they agree with each statement. Composite scores are computed for each morality principle across item types. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2130

Categorization

• DEFINE: Describes the two-part structure of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire.
• XREF: Plausibly connects to the moral foundations theory literature and to how moral judgment research operationalizes its constructs.