170. Moral Foundations Theory | THUNK

Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) has attracted a lot of attention for its very intuitive explanation of where our gut reactions about morality come from, but grand claims about its implications might warrant a healthy dose of skepticism.

-Links for the Curious-

Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism (Graham et al, 2012) -

“What’s Wrong with Moral Foundations Theory, and How to get Moral Psychology Right,” by Oliver Scott Curry -

Mapping morality with a compass: Testing the theory of ‘morality-as-cooperation’ with a new questionnaire (Curry et al, 2018) -

The Theory of Dyadic Morality: Reinventing Moral Judgment by Redefining Harm (Schein & Gray, 2017) -

Can Innate, Modular “Foundations” Explain Morality? Challenges for Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory (Suhler & Churchland, 2011) -

How Moral Foundations Theory Succeeded in Building on Sand: A Response to Suhler and Churchland (Haidt & Joseph, 2011) -

Is the mind really modular? (Prinz, 2004) -

Testing Measurement Invariance of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire Across 27 Countries (Iurino & Saucier, 2018) -

Moral psychology is relationship regulation: Moral motives for unity, hierarchy, equality, and proportionality (Rai et al, 2011) -

Mapping the Moral Domain (Graham et al, 2011) -

THUNK 88 - Hume's Guillotine & Rational Morality -

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