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	Moral Foundations Questionnaire	Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale
Field	Political Psychology	Social Psychology
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2011	1981
Originator	Jesse Graham, Jonathan Haidt et al.	Bob Altemeyer
Type	Self-report values inventory	Self-report Likert scale
Seminal source	Graham, J., Nosek, B. A., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., Koleva, S., & Ditto, P. H. (2011). Mapping the moral domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(2), 366-385.	Altemeyer, B. (1981). Right-wing authoritarianism. University of Manitoba Press.
Aliases	MFQ, MFQ-30, Moral Foundations Theory Questionnaire	RWA
Related	4	4
Summary	The Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) is a 30-item self-report instrument developed by Graham, Haidt and colleagues (2011) to measure the degree to which people rely on five intuitive moral foundations: Care/harm, Fairness/cheating, Loyalty/betrayal, Authority/subversion, and Sanctity/degradation. It is the standard operationalization of Moral Foundations Theory, which argues that political and cultural moral disagreements arise from differing weights placed on these foundations.	The Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale (RWA) is a self-report measure developed by Bob Altemeyer in 1981 to assess individual differences in authoritarian attitudes, including submission to established authorities, adherence to conventional norms, and aggression toward those perceived to violate social conventions. The scale measures three core dimensions: authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, and conventionalism. It has become a cornerstone of research on authoritarianism, political attitudes, and intergroup prejudice.