sivan {BFpack}

Wason task performance and morality

Description

Data from an experimental study, using the Wason selection task (Wason 1968) to examine whether humans have cognitive adaptations for detecting violations of rules in multiple moral domains. Moral domains are operationalized in terms of the five domains of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (Graham et al. 2011). These data were simulated using the R-package synthpop, based on the characteristics of the original data.

Usage

data(sivan)

Format

A data.frame with 887 rows and 12 columns.

Details

sex	factor	Participant sex
age	integer	Participant age
nationality	factor	Participant nationality
politics	integer	How would you define your political opinions? Likert type scale, from 1 (Liberal) to 6 (Conservative)
WasonOrder	factor	Was the Wason task presented before, or after the MFQ?
Harm	numeric	MFQ harm domain.
Fairness	numeric	MFQ fairness domain.
Loyalty	numeric	MFQ loyalty domain.
Purity	numeric	MFQ purity domain.
Tasktype	ordered	How was the Wason task framed?
GotRight	factor	Did the participant give the correct answer to the Wason task?

References

Sivan, J., Curry, O. S., & Van Lissa, C. J. (2018). Excavating the Foundations: Cognitive Adaptations for Multiple Moral Domains. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 4(4), 408–419. doi:10.1007/s40806-018-0154-8