Moral foundations theory

Moral Foundations Theory is a way of understanding why people have different opinions about what is right and wrong. It says that everyone has certain built-in feelings about what is moral and what isn't. These feelings are called 'foundations' and there are six of them: Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, Sanctity/Degradation, and Liberty/ Oppression. Each person puts different emphasis on different ones, and that helps explain why people think different things are right and wrong. For example, if you think it's wrong to cheat on a test, you care about Fairness or Cheating. Or, if you think it’s wrong to break the law, you care about Authority/Subversion.