Test Your Morality

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Hi all, if you are bored, maybe you would like to try this quiz out. (You need to sign up for a BBC account first.) Do share your results here.

URL: www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/morality/

My results
Your sense of wrongness is lower than average
Your sense of anger is lower than average
Your sense of disgust is lower than average
Your desire to avoid is lower than average
Your desire to punish is higher than average

The Human Superorganism Theory states that actively punishing those who do not fulfil their social obligations is one means of regulating social conduct and thus increasing social cohesion. Do you conform to the 'small town' theory?
Your results show that you have a lower than average desire to punish those who fail to punish others. You also indicated that you have spent the most time living in a relatively large community. Based on your responses to the test, you appear to conform to the theory.

Did you conform to the 'family first' theory?
Your results show that you felt less anger or disgust when people close to you - family members, friends or local traders - were affected in the scenarios, and were more concerned about large businesses or national organisations. Based on your responses to the test, you don't appear to conform to the theory, suggesting you may have different origins for this aspect of your personal morality.

Your low sense of wrongness is your most prominent moral dimension. This is the area in which you differed most from the average person in our pilot study.

This suggests that you are not very sensitive to actions that break your moral code, and you are quite tolerant things you don’t agree with.

The dimensions of your morality
Your sense of anger is lower than average
Your sense of disgust is lower than average
Your desire to avoid is lower than average
Your desire to punish is lower than average
You scored medium for boundary offenses.
You scored low for structural offenses.
You scored low for storage offenses.
You scored medium for production offenses.
You scored low for distribution offenses.
You scored low for extrusion offenses.
You scored low for control offenses.
You scored low for reproduction offenses.
You scored medium for memory offenses.
You scored low for communication offenses.
You scored medium for perception offenses.
Morality is thought to be uniquely human. Research suggests this is because only human beings have the problem of coordinating extremely complex social behavior in very large groups of unrelated individuals.
Did you conform to the 'family first' theory?

Your results show that you felt less anger or disgust when people close to you - family members, friends or local traders - were affected in the scenarios, and were more concerned about large businesses or national organisations. Based on your responses to the test, you don't appear to conform to the theory, suggesting you may have different origins for this aspect of your personal morality.

How ever the test asks how you react to others not how you personally deal with the same issues.

Your sense of wrongness is higher than average
Your sense of anger is higher than average
Your sense of disgust is higher than average
Your desire to avoid is lower than average
Your desire to punish is higher than average

The "wrongness" slider doesn't seem to be working right. I got a lot of "you don't care at all about this sort of thing" for areas where I consistently indicated 8 or more on the wrongness slider in each relevant scenario.



Do you conform to the 'small town' theory?

Your results show that you have a lower than average desire to punish those who fail to punish others. You also indicated that you have spent the most time living in a relatively large community. Based on your responses to the test, you appear to conform to the theory.


Did you conform to the 'family first' theory?

Your results show that you felt less anger or disgust when people close to you - family members, friends or local traders - were affected in the scenarios, and were more concerned about large businesses or national organisations. Based on your responses to the test, you don't appear to conform to the theory, suggesting you may have different origins for this aspect of your personal morality.

I didn't learn my morality on the internet
the internet doesn't have a basic morality
therefore :
I cannot learn anything on the internet about morality

Your low sense of wrongness is your most prominent moral dimension. This is the area in which you differed most from the average person in our pilot study.

This suggests that you are not very sensitive to actions that break your moral code, and you are quite tolerant things you don’t agree with.

By exploring the rest of your feedback, you’ll discover how this dimension of morality compares with your other results.

Your sense of wrongness is higher than average
Your sense of anger is lower than average
Your sense of disgust is higher than average
Your desire to avoid is higher than average
Your desire to punish is lower than average

The Human Superorganism Theory states that actively punishing those who do not fulfil their social obligations is one means of regulating social conduct and thus increasing social cohesion. Do you conform to the 'small town' theory?

Your results show that you have a higher than average desire to punish those who fail to punish others. You also indicated that you have spent the most time living in a relatively small community. Based on your responses to the test, you appear to conform to the theory.

Did you conform to the 'family first' theory?
Your results show that you felt more anger or disgust when people close to you - family members, friends or local traders - were affected in the scenarios, and were less concerned about large businesses or national organisations. Based on your responses to the test, you appear to conform to the theory.

Your sense of wrongness is lower than average
Your sense of anger is higher than average
Your sense of disgust is higher than average
Your desire to avoid is lower than average
Your desire to punish is higher than average

Overall, I'm pretty average in all of these. They're either very slightly above or very slightly below average.

Your low sense of wrongness is your most prominent moral dimension. This is the area in which you differed most from the average person in our pilot study.
This suggests that you are not very sensitive to actions that break your moral code, and you are quite tolerant things you don’t agree with.

On the "city of morals" - low on all parts of "wrongness", "disgust" and "anger".
On "avoid"; medium for boundary, storage, distribution, memory and communication offences, rest are low.
On "punish"; medium for boundary offences, rest are low.

Do you conform to the 'small town' theory?
Your results show that you have a lower than average desire to punish those who fail to punish others. You also indicated that you have spent the most time living in a relatively large community. Based on your responses to the test, you appear to conform to the theory.

Did you conform to the 'family first' theory?
Your results show that you felt less anger or disgust when people close to you - family members, friends or local traders - were affected in the scenarios, and were more concerned about large businesses or national organisations. Based on your responses to the test, you don't appear to conform to the theory, suggesting you may have different origins for this aspect of your personal morality.