Moral Foundations Test
The five intuitions behind your sense of right and wrong.
Thirty short statements about morality. Rate how much you agree with each one. There are no right answers and no political labels — just five independent foundations that together map what your conscience cares about most. Takes about 6 minutes.
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What does this test measure?
It measures how much weight you place on five moral foundations — Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity. Each is an independent dimension, so you get five separate scores that together describe your moral profile, not a single label.
Where does the framework come from?
From Moral Foundations Theory, developed by Jonathan Haidt, Jesse Graham and colleagues. The theory proposes that human moral judgement draws on a small set of innate intuitions. We reference the framework and wrote our own items in our own voice.
Is this a political test?
No. Research finds that moral foundations correlate loosely with political leanings, but this test gives no political label and takes no political side. It describes which moral concerns weigh on you — nothing more.
What are the two groups of foundations?
Researchers often split the five into the 'individualizing' foundations (Care and Fairness, focused on individuals and their rights) and the 'binding' foundations (Loyalty, Authority and Sanctity, focused on holding groups together). Your profile shows your balance between them.
Is this a clinical or diagnostic test?
No. This is an educational self-reflection tool, not a clinical instrument. It does not diagnose anything and there are no right or wrong answers — only your own pattern of moral concern.