It is important to study morality given its varied influences on our lives. Haidt and Joseph (2007) have traced morality to its instinctive roots. They have identified five mental systems (moral intuitions) that guide moral judgment: care, fairness, loyalty, authority and purity. This dissertation attempted to create and test an implicit instrument, known as Moral Foundations-Affect Misattribution Procedure (MF-AMP), to gauge the accessibility of these moral intuitions. Three studies were designed in order to validate the MF-AMP as a trait and state measure of moral intuitions. Results show that the MF-AMP can serve as a useful state measure of moral intuitions, and can serve as an accompaniment to the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (Graham et al., 2011) as a trait measure of moral intuitions.
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