<p><a href="http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/rtfiles/leadership/Graham_Jesse_paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">Jonathan Haidt</a> has used a five axis model to characterize groups by their use of 5 sets of moral intuitions. </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Harm/care, Fairness/reciprocity, Ingroup/loyalty, Authority/ respect,
  and Purity/sanctity. Across 4 studies using multiple methods, liberals
  consistently showed greater endorsement and use of the Harm/care and
  Fairness/reciprocity foundations compared to the other 3 foundations,
  whereas conservatives endorsed and used the 5 foundations more
  equally.</p>
</blockquote>

<p><a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Jonathan%20Haidt%20authority%20%20purity&amp;btnG=&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C21" rel="nofollow">He's got several papers in this area</a>. I don't know of any attempts to use this framework to describe groups other than liberals, conservatives, and libertarians, but in principle you could. </p>

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BKay
<p>You may have heard of the Myers Briggs personality profile test. Is there a similar test for societies?</p>

<p>The MB has four dimensions </p>

<ul>
<li>Introversion/Extraversion </li>
<li>iNtuition/Sensing </li>
<li>Feeling/Thinking</li>
<li>Perception/Judging</li>
</ul>

<p>I'm thinking that a society (which could be as large as a nation, or as small as an office) will have other attributes, such as</p>

<ul>
<li>Patriarchal/Matriarchal</li>
<li>Corporate/Entrepreneur</li>
<li>Rural/Urban</li>
<li>Centralized/Decentralized (government)</li>
<li>Religious/Secular</li>
</ul>

<p>etc. Does a "society profile test" like that already exist?  Hopefully with data already collected?</p>

<p>Sorry if this is off topic. I couldn't find any "sociology stack exchange"</p>

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Strictly speaking this is off-topic here, although economists are constantly on the lookout for non-economic traits  to incorporate into their models. The good news is that even if the question gets closed, it already received an apparently stimulating answer.
Alecos Papadopoulos
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Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnopsychology
Deer Hunter
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There's also [Cognitive Sciences SE](https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/).
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Is there a "personality test" for societies?
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# Is there a "personality test" for societies?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-12-19)

You may have heard of the Myers Briggs personality profile test. Is there a similar test for societies?

The MB has four dimensions

* Introversion/Extraversion
* iNtuition/Sensing
* Feeling/Thinking
* Perception/Judging

I'm thinking that a society (which could be as large as a nation, or as small as an office) will have other attributes, such as

* Patriarchal/Matriarchal
* Corporate/Entrepreneur
* Rural/Urban
* Centralized/Decentralized (government)
* Religious/Secular

etc. Does a "society profile test" like that already exist? Hopefully with data already collected?

Sorry if this is off topic. I couldn't find any "sociology stack exchange"

**Tags:** behavioral-economics, markets, scientific-method, history-economic-thought

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Strictly speaking this is off-topic here, although economists are constantly on the lookout for non-economic traits  to incorporate into their models. The good news is that even if the question gets closed, it already received an apparently stimulating answer.  
> **username_2**: Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnopsychology  
> **username_2**: There's also [Cognitive Sciences SE](https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/).  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2014-12-19. Score: 2

[Jonathan Haidt](http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/rtfiles/leadership/Graham_Jesse_paper.pdf) has used a five axis model to characterize groups by their use of 5 sets of moral intuitions.

> Harm/care, Fairness/reciprocity, Ingroup/loyalty, Authority/ respect,
> and Purity/sanctity. Across 4 studies using multiple methods, liberals
> consistently showed greater endorsement and use of the Harm/care and
> Fairness/reciprocity foundations compared to the other 3 foundations,
> whereas conservatives endorsed and used the 5 foundations more
> equally.

[He's got several papers in this area](http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Jonathan%20Haidt%20authority%20%20purity&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C21). I don't know of any attempts to use this framework to describe groups other than liberals, conservatives, and libertarians, but in principle you could.


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