Moral concerns are differentially observable in language

Language is a psychologically rich medium for human expression and communication. While language usage has been shown to be window into various aspects of people's social worlds, including their personality traits everyday environment, its correspondence moral concerns yet considered. Here, we examine the relationship between Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, Purity as conceptualized by Moral Foundations Theory. We collected Facebook status updates (N = 107,798) from English-speaking participants (n 2691) along with responses on Questionnaire. Overall, results suggested that self-reported may traced in usage, though magnitude this effect varied considerably among concerns. Across diverse selection Natural Processing methods, Fairness were consistently least correlated whereas found most traceable. In exploratory follow-up analyses, each concern was differentially related distinct patterns relational, emotional, language. Our are first relate individual differences uncover signatures