# Explainable Patterns for Distinction and Prediction of Moral Judgement on Reddit

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11155 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.11155/

## Key facts

- Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 10 of its 26 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 26 Jan 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 10 of 10)

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- [The Pushshift Reddit Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.08435/) (2020)
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- [Stance Detection in Web and Social Media: A Comparative Study](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.05976/) (2020)
- [Analysis of Moral Judgement on Reddit](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.07664/) (2021)
- [Stance Detection on Tweets: An SVM-based Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.08910/) (2018)
- [GrASP: A Library for Extracting and Exploring Human-Interpretable Textual Patterns](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.03958/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [Unifying Data Perspectivism and Personalization: An Application to Social Norms](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.14531/) (2022)
- [Values, Ethics, Morals? On the Use of Moral Concepts in NLP Research](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.13915/) (2023)
- [The Pluralistic Moral Gap: Understanding Judgment and Value Differences between Humans and Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.17216/) (2025)
- [Author as Character and Narrator: Deconstructing Personal Narratives from the r/AmITheAsshole Reddit Community](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.08104/) (2023)
- [Understanding Interpersonal Conflict Types and their Impact on Perception Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.08758/) (2022)
- [Interpretation modeling: Social grounding of sentences by reasoning over their implicit moral judgments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.03726/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The forum r/AmITheAsshole in Reddit hosts discussion on moral issues based on concrete narratives presented by users. Existing analysis of the forum focuses on its comments, and does not make the underlying data publicly available. In this paper we build a new dataset of comments and also investigate the classification of the posts in the forum. Further, we identify textual patterns associated with the provocation of moral judgement by posts, with the expression of moral stance in comments, and with the decisions of trained classifiers of posts and comments.