Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary
(eMFD).

The Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD) is a validated, crowd-sourced linguistic tool designed to quantify moral content in text. By assigning numerical scores to core moral domains (e.g., care, fairness, loyalty, authority, purity), the eMFD enables researchers to detect, compare, and track moral intuitions across diverse forms of communication ranging from social media posts to news articles. Developed through large-scale crowd annotation and rigorous validation, it bridges computational text analysis and human moral judgment to reveal how moral values shape discourse and decision-making across contexts.