‘Test Your Morality’ experiment

We make moral decisions all the time, but do we really understand why we make them? Dr Robert Aunger explains how the ‘Test Your Morality’ experiment hopes to unlock the explanations for our personal moral choices.
Scientists are trying to explain why humans experience moral responses to certain situations. They want to know what factors (like background and life circumstances) affect a person’s view of right and wrong, and why it is that people differ in their perception of how ‘wrong’ different types of moral offence are. By taking part in the experiment, you will be helping scientists answer these questions.

In Test Your Morality, you will be asked to respond to a variety of scenarios in which people are doing things that you may or may not agree with. You will be asked about how disgusted and angry the scenarios make you feel, and whether you want to avoid or punish the people in them.

You will learn how your moral responses to the scenarios compare to a wider population of people. And at the end of the experiment you will receive detailed, personalised feedback about your scores.

You’ll find out lots about your personal moral traits, including which is the most prominent. You will also find out how your morality relates to the ‘human superorganism’, which is depicted in your feedback as your personal ‘City of Morals’.

We hope that by getting a large number of people from around the world to take part in this experiment, we can gain greater insight into the nature of human moral feelings and judgments, and how much they vary globally.

Ultimately, we hope the findings from Test Your Morality will lead to an improved understanding of how morality works and could help us to organise our societies in more fruitful ways in future.

About the test here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/articles/morality/

FAQ's here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/articles/morality/faq.html

Take the test here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/morality/