Cross-cultural validity of the values elicitation process (MGE)

Ascertain how effectively the Moral Graph Elicitation values elicitation process operates in countries with very different cultures—specifically Nigeria, China, and the United Arab Emirates—by evaluating whether it can successfully elicit and reconcile values to produce a moral graph comparable to the U.S. case study.

Background

The paper’s case paper evaluates Moral Graph Elicitation (MGE) with a representative sample of 500 Americans and reports promising results across multiple criteria (legitimacy, robustness, fine-grainedness, generalizability, and scalability).

However, the authors note that cultural differences may materially affect the elicitation and reconciliation of values. They explicitly flag uncertainty about MGE’s performance in non-U.S. contexts and cite Nigeria, China, and the UAE as examples, indicating a need for further validation beyond the U.S. sample.