Emfd

The Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD): Development and Applications of a Crowd-Sourced Approach to Extracting Moral Intuitions from Text

This is the official repository for all analyses conducted in:

Hopp, F. R., Fisher, J. T., Cornell, D., Huskey, R., & Weber, R. (2020). The extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD): Development and applications of a crowd-sourced approach to extracting moral intuitions from text. Behavior Research Methods, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01433-0

Contents:

1.) Dictionaries:

• emfd_scoring: The eMFD for text scoring (see also https://github.com/medianeuroscience/emfdscore).
• emfd_amp: The eMFD for usage within behavorial, experimental paradigms such as Moral Affect Misattribution Procedures (e.g., Tamborini, Prabhu, Lewis, Grizzard, & Eden, 2016) or Lexical Decision Tasks (e.g., Gantman & van Bavel, 2014; 2016)
• mfd2.0dic: The MFD2.0 (see https://osf.io/xakyw/)
• mft_original: The original Moral Foundations Dictionary (see https://www.moralfoundations.org/othermaterials)

2.) Notebooks:

• dicitonary_construction.ipynb: Code and pipeline for constructing the eMFD
• dictionary_exploration.ipynb: Code for exploring the eMFD and comparing it to previous MFDs
• dictionary_tresholding.ipynb: Code for thresholding the eMFD
• dictionary_validation.ipynb: Code for validation analyses