Identifying the moral foundations of fictional characters
.txtLAB @ McGill 2025-11-16
Summary:
In a new study that appeared as part of EMNLP 2025 led by two students from our lab, Luca Mitran and Sophie Wu, we developed a new method for measuring moral values in stories. We call it the Moral Foundations Character Actions Questionnaire (MFCAQ), and we used it to probe the moral logic of nearly 3,000 folktales…