Morality

Home to open-access resources for studying morality, cooperation, and moral language.

The Moral Foundations MRI Collection
(MOFOMIC)

 

The Moral Foundations MRI Collection (MOFOMIC) is an open-access neuroimaging repository designed to advance research on moral judgment, decision-making, and social cognition. Developed through collaboration among the University of California, Santa Barbara, Duke University, and the University of Amsterdam, MOFOMIC integrates four harmonized fMRI studies (NIMF1–NIMF4) conducted across multiple countries and laboratories.

 

 

The collection comprises 154 healthy adult participants, encompassing task-based and resting-state functional MRI, structural MRI, and comprehensive psychometric data. All datasets are available in raw and preprocessed BIDS-compliant format, making them immediately usable for secondary analyses, reproducibility studies, and meta-analytic modeling.

Moral Narrative Analyzer
(MoNA).

 

MoNA (Moral Narrative Analyzer) is a hybrid human–machine learning platform that uncovers how stories—whether in film, news, or public debate—shape moral understanding and collective behavior. Using advanced natural language processing and empirically validated annotation tools, MoNA analyzes moral themes, conflicts, and emotions across global narratives to reveal how moralized messages influence opinion formation and social action. By combining computational methods, crowd evaluations, and interactive discussion experiments, MoNA provides scalable, real-time insights into how moral conflict drives engagement and shapes cultural narratives worldwide.

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.

The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary
(eMACD).

 

The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD) is a validated, crowd-sourced linguistic tool designed to quantify cooperative moral content in text. Grounded in the Morality as Cooperation (MAC) framework, it measures seven universal moral domains (e.g., family, loyalty, reciprocity, heroism, deference, fairness, and property) that reflect how humans solve social and cooperative challenges. Developed through the Moral Narrative Analyzer (MoNA) platform, the eMACD combines large-scale human annotation with advanced natural language processing to capture the subtle expression of moral values across news, speeches, social media, and entertainment.