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  • Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Computational Social Science

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  • Language reflects social worlds, personality, and environment.
  • The connection between language and moral concerns remains unexplored.
  • Moral Foundations Theory categorizes moral concerns into Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Purity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between language usage and moral concerns.
  • To determine if moral concerns are traceable in written language.
  • To identify linguistic markers associated with specific moral foundations.

Main Methods:

  • Collected 107,798 Facebook status updates from 2,691 participants.
  • Participants completed the Moral Foundations Questionnaire.
  • Applied various Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to analyze language and moral concerns.

Main Results:

  • Self-reported moral concerns correlate with language usage, with varying effect sizes.
  • Purity concerns showed the strongest correlation with language, while Fairness concerns showed the weakest.
  • Each moral concern related to distinct patterns in relational, emotional, and social language.

Conclusions:

  • Individual differences in moral concerns are reflected in language.
  • Specific linguistic signatures for moral concerns were identified.
  • This research pioneers the link between moral psychology and computational linguistics.