Moral concerns are differentially observable in language
Moral concerns are differentially observable in language
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104696
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发表时间：
2021-03-31
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Dehghani, Morteza
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作者：
Kennedy, Brendan;Atari, Mohammad;Dehghani, Morteza
语言是人类表达和交流的心理丰富的媒介。虽然语言的使用已经被证明是人们社会世界各个方面的一个窗口，包括他们的个性特征和日常环境，但它与人们的道德关切的对应关系还有待考虑。在这里，我们考察了语言使用与道德基础理论概念化的关怀、公平、忠诚、权威和纯洁之间的关系。我们从讲英语的参与者（N = 2691）中收集了Facebook状态更新（N =107,798）以及他们对道德基础问卷的回答。总体而言，研究结果表明，自我报告的道德关切可以追溯到语言使用，尽管这种影响的程度在道德关切之间差异很大。在多种自然语言处理方法的选择中，公平性问题与语言使用的相关性始终最低，而纯度问题则是最可追溯的。在探索性的后续分析中，我们发现每一种道德关注都与关系、情感和社会语言的不同模式有不同的联系。我们的研究结果首次将道德关注的个体差异与语言使用联系起来，并揭示了语言中道德关注的特征。
Language is a psychologically rich medium for human expression and communication. While language usage has been shown to be a window into various aspects of people's social worlds, including their personality traits and everyday environment, its correspondence to people's moral concerns has yet to be considered. Here, we examine the relationship between language usage and the moral concerns of Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Purity as conceptualized by Moral Foundations Theory. We collected Facebook status updates (N =107,798) from English-speaking participants (n = 2691) along with their responses on the Moral Foundations Questionnaire. Overall, results suggested that self-reported moral concerns may be traced in language usage, though the magnitude of this effect varied considerably among moral concerns. Across a diverse selection of Natural Language Processing methods, Fairness concerns were consistently least correlated with language usage whereas Purity concerns were found to be the most traceable. In exploratory follow-up analyses, each moral concern was found to be differentially related to distinct patterns of relational, emotional, and social language. Our results are the first to relate individual differences in moral concerns to language usage, and to uncover the signatures of moral concerns in language.