Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Morality binds and blinds. This is not just something that happens to people on the other side. We all get sucked into… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how… — 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
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