Wednesday, January 09, 2008
PERSONALITY TRAIT: How Evil are You?

How evil are you?
Labels: balance, control, demons, ethics, evil, good, inner demons, inner self, moderate, morality, neutral, peace, peacemaker, PERSONALITY, PERSONALITY TRAIT
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
PERSONALITY TRAIT: A Morality Test

This is my results on a morality quiz from an interesting site where a psychologist compares the moralities of liberals and conservatives. - OlderMusicGeek
The scale you completed was the "Moral Foundations Questionnaire," developed by Jesse Graham, Jonathan Haidt & Brian A. Nosek at the University of Virginia.
The scale is a measure of your reliance on and endorsement of five psychological foundations of morality that seem to be found across cultures. Each of the two parts of the scale contained four questions related to each foundation: 1) harm/care, 2) fairness/reciprocity (including issues of rights), 3) ingroup/loyalty, 4) authority/respect, and 5) purity/sanctity.
The idea behind the scale is that human morality is the result of biological and cultural evolutionary processes that made human beings very sensitive to many different (and often competing) issues. Some of these issues are about treating other individuals well (the first two foundations - harm and fairness). Other issues are about how to be a good member of a group or supporter of social order and tradition (the last three foundations). Haidt and Graham have found that political liberals generally place a higher value on the first two foundations; they are very concerned about issues of harm and fairness (including issues of inequality and exploitation). Political conservatives care about harm and fairness too, but they generally score slightly lower on those scale items. The big difference between liberals and conservatives seems to be that conservatives score slightly higher on the ingroup/loyalty foundation, and much higher on the authority/respect and purity/sanctity foundations.
This difference seems to explain many of the most contentious issues in the culture war. For example, liberals support legalizing gay marriage (to be fair and compassionate), whereas many conservatives are reluctant to change the nature of marriage and the family, basic building blocks of society. Conservatives are more likely to favor practices that increase order and respect (e.g., spanking, mandatory pledge of allegiance), whereas liberals often oppose these practices as being violent or coercive.
In the graphs below, your scores on each foundation are shown in green. The scores of all liberals who have taken it on our site are shown in blue, and the scores of all conservatives are shown in red. Scores run from 0 (the lowest possible score, you completely reject that foundation) to 5 (the highest possible score, you very strongly endorse that foundation and build much of your morality on top of it).
Link to YourMorals.org - the site with the test
Labels: authority, conservative, ethics, fairness, liberal, loyalty, morality, PERSONALITY TRAIT
Sunday, October 08, 2006
PERSONALITY TRAIT: How Honest Are You?
You Are Somewhat Honest |
![]() But you also stretch the truth on occasion You figure a little lie isn't a big deal As long as it doesn't hurt anyone too much! |
Labels: ethics, honest, morality, PERSONALITY, PERSONALITY TRAIT, truth
PERSONALITY TRAIT: How Evil Are You?
You Are 22% Evil |
![]() In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil. |
Labels: ethics, evil, morality, other side, PERSONALITY, PERSONALITY TRAIT, pure, secret
PERSONALITY TRAIT: How Pure Are You?
You Are 52% Pure |
![]() But you also have a secret naughty side! |
Labels: ethics, good, morality, naughty, other side, PERSONALITY, PERSONALITY TRAIT, pure, secret
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