It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds.… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
“The ethic of autonomy is based on the idea that people are, first and foremost, autonomous individuals with wants, needs, and preferences. People should… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
“We should not expect individuals to produce good, open-minded, truth-seeking reasoning, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in play. But if you put… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
“Our minds have the potential to become righteous about many different concerns, and only a few of these concerns are activated during childhood. Other” — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
“Nonetheless, if you are trying to change an organization or a society and you do not consider the effects of your changes on moral… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share
