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Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale (MFSS)

 

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Geoffrey W Sutton & Bing AI

Assessment name:  Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale (MFSS)

Scale overview: The Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale is a 24-item measurement of the sacredness of moral values. Each item is rated on an 8-point scale of value.

Authors: Jesse Graham and Jonathan Haidt

Response Type: An 8-point value rating scale

First, participants receive instructions:

Try to imagine actually doing the following things, and indicate how much money someone would have to pay you (anonymously and secretly) to be willing to do each thing. For each action, assume that nothing bad would happen to you afterward. Also assume that you cannot use the money to make up for your action.

Then, they read brief scenarios and provide a response by rating the scenarios on an 8-point scale of dollar values: ranging from 1 = $0 (I’d do it for free); 2 = $10; 3 = $100; 4 = $1,000; 5 = $10,000; 6 = $100,000; 7 = $1 million; to 8 = never, for any amount of money.

Scale items

There are four brief scenarios for each of the five moral foundations plus an optional set of four items categorized as nonmoral.

An example of a fairness scenario asks a person about cheating in a card game played for money.

Psychometric properties

Cronbach’s alpha = .77 (Siddiqi et al., 2020)

 Availability:

The full set of scenarios with instructions and scoring guidance is available in the PsycTESTS reference.

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Beliefs, Practices, Values, & Experiences

 

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Reference for the scale

Graham, J., & Haidt, J. (2012). Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale [Database record]. Retrieved from PsycTESTS. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t58158-000

GRAHAM, J., & HAIDT, J. (2012). Sacred values and evil adversaries: A moral foundations approach. In M. Mikulincer & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), The Social psychology of morality: Exploring the causes of good and evil (pp. 11–32). American Psychological Association. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1chs4pj.6

Siddiqi, N., Shahnawaz, M. G., & Nasir, S. (2020). Reexamining construct validity of the Short Dark Triad (SD3) scale. Current Issues in Personality Psychology, 8(1), 18–30. https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp.2020.94055

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