Moral Values Coding Guide
Joe Hoover, Kate M Johnson-Grey, Morteza Dehghani, Jesse Graham · 2017
This guide is intended to be a manual for coding the moral content of natural languagedocuments and a record of the USC Computational Social Science and Virtue Ideologyand Morality labs’ protocol for coding the moral content of social media and othertexts. The general goal is for this guide to be a self-contained manual that can be usedfor training research assistants and establishing common practices for the identificationand labeling of morally relevant sentiment in natural language. It currently includes anintroduction to coding sentiment according to the Moral Foundations Theoryframework.