What do my results say about my ideology?
According to Haidt's methodology, when applied strictly in an American context:
Left-Liberals / Social Democrats tend to score very high in Care, Fairness, and Liberty relative to In-Group Loyalty, Purity, and Authority, which they tend to score lowly on.
Conservatives tend to weigh all foundations relatively similarly to one another, valuing each of them to a moderately high level.
Fascists tend to score very high in In-Group Loyalty, Purity, and Authority relative to Care, Fairness, and Liberty, which they tend to score lowly on.
Libertarians tend to score very high in Liberty relative to the other foundations which they value little to moderately, though it is not uncommon for them to also place high value on Fairness.
Progressive Socialists tend to score very high in Care and Fairness relative to everything else which they value lowly (Including Liberty, which separates them from Left-Liberals).
Marxist-Leninists tend to score very high in Fairness relative to the other foundations which they value little to moderately, though it is not uncommon for them to also place high value on In-Group Loyalty, Purity, and/or Authority.
What is the meaning of the CARE foundation?
The CARE foundation is defined as a desire to minimize the suffering of others and protect the weak.
Values pertaining to Care include:
Public welfare, tolerance of misfits, mercy towards wrongdoers, politeness, pacifism, emotional openness, and childhood innocence.
Culturally, Northern, Western, and Southern European societies tend to place the greatest emphasis on Care.
What is the meaning of the FAIRNESS foundation?
The FAIRNESS foundation is defined as a desire for people to be held accountable for their actions in an equal playing field: holding the rules constant for all participants.
Values pertaining to Fairness include:
Racial & gender equality, equality of opportunity, honesty, reciprocity, impartiality, and safeguards against nepotism and/or cronyism.
Culturally, developed societies where most citizens are literate/educated all tend to place a strong emphasis on Fairness.
What is the meaning of the LIBERTY foundation?
The LIBERTY foundation is defined as a desire for people to have agency over their lives without outside coercion from a central authority.
Values pertaining to Liberty include:
Free speech, bodily autonomy, democracy, privacy, personal property rights, self-defense, and voluntarism.
Culturally, English-speaking societies, namely the United States, tend to place the greatest emphasis on Liberty.
What is the meaning of the IN-GROUP LOYALTY foundation?
The IN-GROUP LOYALTY foundation is defined as a desire for members of one's "natural" ingroups (such as their family, tribe, or nation) to collectivize for the benefit of said in-groups.
Values pertaining to In-Group Loyalty include:
Self-sacrifice, nativism, national sovereignty, tradition, family-unity, natalism, and social cohesion.
Culturally, societies in regions that are geopolitically tense and/or that have recently escaped foreign occupation tend to place the greatest emphasis on In-Group Loyalty, with Eastern Europe in particular being the demographic region that scores highest in it.
What is the meaning of the PURITY foundation?
The PURITY foundation is defined as a desire to uphold a standard of "high society" and avoid behavior that is percieved as primitive, degenerate, recklessly hedonistic and/or spiritually degrading.
Values pertaining to Purity include:
Health, beauty, etiquette, abstinence, chastity, frugality, animism, and spirituality.
Culturally, societies with a strong religious presence such as Romania, Thailand, Japan, Turkey, and Nepal tend to place the greatest emphasis on Purity.
What is the meaning of the AUTHORITY foundation?
The AUTHORITY foundation is defined as a desire to establish and conform to rules, institutions, hierarchies and leaders that are deemed as being essential to the stability and efficiency of society.
Values pertaining to Authority include:
Lawfulness, respect for elders, trust in experts, discipline, assertive leadership, meritocracy, and industriousness.
Culturally, East Asian societies with a Confucius influence tend to place the greatest emphasis on Authority.
