How MoralSelf scores your answers
Adapted for self-reflection, not a validated MFQ or MFQ-2. Percentages show agreement, not population percentiles. Score bands are descriptive; quick and full results may differ.
How the scores are calculated
Each answer is an integer from 0 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree). A foundation score is the sum of its answers divided by six times its number of statements, multiplied by 100 and rounded. All selected statements must be answered.
round(100 × Σ / (6 × n))
- Low emphasis0–29%
- Moderate30–49%
- Strong50–69%
- Defining70–100%
The six foundations
- Care
- Care is the instinct to ease the suffering of others and stand between the weak and whatever threatens them.
- Fairness
- Fairness is the demand that everyone play by the same rules on the same field — and answer for what they do on it.
- Liberty
- Liberty is the insistence that people steer their own lives free from coercion by any central power.
- In-Group Loyalty
- Loyalty is the pull to close ranks with the groups you were born into — family, tribe, nation — and put their good first.
- Purity
- Purity is the urge to hold self and society to an elevated standard — above whatever feels base, degenerate, recklessly hedonistic, or spiritually corrosive.
- Authority & Order
- Authority is the conviction that rules, institutions, hierarchies, and leaders — the scaffolding of a stable society — deserve to be built and obeyed.
About the test
- What does MoralSelf measure?
- MoralSelf summarizes agreement with statements about Care, Fairness, Liberty, Loyalty, Purity and Authority. The profile is a starting point for reflecting on your moral priorities.
- Is the test free?
- Yes. The full and quick versions are free and require no account. You can view, share and save your results as an image.
- What is the difference between the full and quick tests?
- The full test has 48 statements, eight per foundation, and takes about seven minutes. The quick test selects 24, four per foundation, and takes about three minutes. Their different item sets can produce different results.
- What does a score of 50% mean?
- It means your average answer for that foundation is the midpoint of the agreement scale. Percentages are not population percentiles or measures of moral worth. The six scores do not need to add up to 100%.
- Is MoralSelf an official MFQ or MFQ-2?
- No. It is adapted from the independently published Moral Foundations Test. No validation study is provided for this adaptation or its translations. Score bands and political examples are descriptive, not diagnoses or classifications.
- Where are answers stored, and what does sharing reveal?
- Answers and the latest result stay in this browser when local storage is available. Shared links expose all six scores to anyone with the link, but do not contain individual answers, identity or the test length.
Sources and limitations
Items adapted and reworded from the open-source Moral Foundations Test.