The Moral Foundations MRI Collection: A Multi-Center, Multi-Country Functional MRI Collection for Evaluating Moral Judgment

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Authors: Frederic R. Hopp, Sungbin Youk, Ori Amir, Musa Malik, Kylie Woodman, Brittany Wheeler, Ari Khoudary, Kevin M. O'neill, Felipe De Brigard, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, René Weber
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Abstract

We present the moral foundations MRI collection (MOFOMIC), a multi-center, multi-country database of four functional MRI studies spanning data from N=152 healthy adults for probing moral judgment in the brain. All four neuroimaging acquisitions involved structural MRI and taskbased fMRI as well as resting-state fMRI in two studies. Notably, all task-based fMRI data across the four studies was collected while participants evaluated the graded moral wrongness of the same set of validated and standardized moral foundations vignettes as well as photographic socio-moral images in two studies. Extensively annotated event-files, behavioral responses, as well as demographic and psychometric data are available. For each dataset and data modality, we provide the data in both raw and preprocessed form (both compliant with the Brain Imaging Data Structure), which were subjected to extensive (automated and manual) quality control. All data is publicly available from the OpenNeuro data sharing platform.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment Face Recognition and Perception Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

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Publication date
9 January 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint