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Moral Foundations Test

The five intuitions behind your sense of right and wrong.

By Dmitry Baluev · Updated May 21, 2026

About this test

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 your result could be

Every possible result for this test, and what each one means.

Your Moral Foundations — Five moral intuitions, weighed — not one verdict.
Your morality is not a single rule but a blend of intuitions. This profile shows how much weight you place on each of the five foundations — Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity — a framework from moral psychology built to explain why good people disagree so fiercely: they are often not arguing about facts, but weighing different foundations. The first two (Care and Fairness) are the 'individualizing' foundations that protect individuals; the last three (Loyalty, Authority, Sanctity) are the 'binding' foundations that hold groups together. Where you lean tells you what your conscience reaches for first — and, just as usefully, which arguments will never move you and which opponents are not evil, just differently weighted. Read each bar on its own, then look at the individualizing-versus-binding balance: that single contrast explains a remarkable share of everyday moral friction, at work as much as in politics.

Every dimension in this test

Each dimension is scored on its own — see how they fit together.

Frequently asked

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.

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