Moral Psychology Test: What Do Your Choices Reveal
Most of us believe we know our own values. We say we care about fairness, loyalty, honesty — and we mean it. But moral psychology research has shown, repeatedly, that what people say they believe and what they actually do when forced to choose can be strikingly different things. Dilemmas are not tricks or riddles. They are controlled situations designed to isolate the factors that drive moral judgment — whether you weight outcomes, duties, relationships, or gut instinct. On SplitVote, each scenario puts you at a genuine crossroads where both paths carry a real cost, and your response tells you something that no personality questionnaire can. Vote on a dilemma, see how tens of thousands of other people reasoned through the same choice, and find out where your moral compass actually points.
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A runaway trolley is heading toward 5 people. You can pull a lever to divert it — but it will kill 1 person instead.
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Research background
Jonathan Haidt at NYU and Joshua Greene at Harvard have independently shown that moral intuitions are faster and more emotion-driven than classical rational-choice theory predicts — Greene's dual-process model distinguishes automatic "deontological" gut reactions from slower utilitarian deliberation. Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory further identifies six universal moral dimensions (care, fairness, loyalty, authority, sanctity, liberty) that explain variation in moral judgment across cultures and political groups.
- The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment — American Psychological Association / Psychological Review
- An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment — Harvard University / Science
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