--- license: cc-by-nc-4.0 task_categories: - text-classification language: - en tags: - psychology - social psychology - culture - society pretty_name: The Cultural and Moral Expressions in Language (CAMEL) Corpus size_categories: - 10K**The Cultural and Moral Expressions in Language (CAMEL)** corpus is a dataset of more than **56000 texts** gathered from multiple sources including Reddit, X (Twitter), Wikipedia, and other relevant text datasets. This dataset was prepared by the **Culture and Morality Lab (CaM-L)** at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For an overview of our work, [visit us here 🐪](https://websites.umass.edu/matari/?_gl=1%2A17a9v8l%2A_gcl_au%2ANjQ0NjI1Njg4LjE3NjIyODg5OTA.%2A_ga%2AMTM2MjYzNjY2MS4xNzYyMjg4OTkw%2A_ga_21RLS0L7EB%2AczE3NjIyODg5OTAkbzEkZzAkdDE3NjIyODg5OTAkajYwJGwwJGgw) Each piece of text has been annotated by at least three human annotators. The annotators received intensive training in recognizing **25 constructs** related to cultural and social psychology. Examples of the key constructs include moral foundations ([Haidt & Joseph, 2004](https://www.jstor.org/stable/20027945); [Atari et al., 2023](https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000470)), kinship ([Schulz et al., 2019](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau5141)), and cultural tightness-looseness ([Gelfand, Nishii, & Raver, 2006](https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.91.6.1225)). Please note that the dataset contains offensive or hateful language as well, which has been annotated in the appropriate category. ## License This dataset is governed by the [Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en). You may freely use the dataset for non-commercial purposes, as long as you properly attribute/cite the relevant source (see below). ## Citation Information ```bibtex @misc{zewail2025camel, author = {Aliah Zewail and Aanchal Setia and Roya Mohammadsadegh and Fırat Şeker and Ali Hajian and Hector J. Sosa and Satvika Reddy Gavireddy and Liora Morhayim and Mohammad Atari}, title = {The Cultural and Moral Expressions in Language (CAMEL) Corpus}, year = {2025}, note = {Unpublished manuscript} } ``` ## Contact For questions or comments about this dataset, please reach out to Mohammad Atari ([matari@umass.edu](mailto:matari@umass.edu)) or Aliah Zewail ([azewail@umass.edu](mailto:azewail@umass.edu)).