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

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Author(s) / Creator(s)

Hopp, Frederic Rene
Youk, Sungbin
Amir, Ori
Malik, Musa
Woodman, Kylie
Wheeler, Brittany
Khoudary, Ari
O'Neill, Kevin
De Brigard, Felipe
Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter
Weber, René

Abstract / Description

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.

Keyword(s)

moral judgment moral foundations theory fmri

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Date of first publication

2026-01-09

Publisher

PsychArchives

Citation

  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Hopp, Frederic Rene
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Youk, Sungbin
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Amir, Ori
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Malik, Musa
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Woodman, Kylie
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Wheeler, Brittany
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Khoudary, Ari
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    O'Neill, Kevin
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    De Brigard, Felipe
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Weber, René
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2026-01-09T06:57:26Z
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    2026-01-09T06:57:26Z
  • Date of first publication
    2026-01-09
  • Abstract / Description
    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.
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  • Publication status
    other
  • Review status
    notReviewed
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/16950
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.21564
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    PsychArchives
  • Keyword(s)
    moral judgment
  • Keyword(s)
    moral foundations theory
  • Keyword(s)
    fmri
  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    The Moral Foundations MRI Collection: A Multi-Center, Multi-Country Functional MRI Collection for Evaluating Moral Judgment
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  • DRO type
    preprint
  • Leibniz institute name(s) / abbreviation(s)
    ZPID