“Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve on their own.”43” — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. — 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
“Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)” — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Once you see our righteous minds as primate minds with a hivish overlay, you get a whole new perspective on morality, politics,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“The liberal radio host Garrison Keillor captured the spirit and self-image of the modern American left when he wrote: I am a… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is… — 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
Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Religions are moral exoskeletons. If you live in a religious community, you are enmeshed in a set of norms, relationships, and institutions… — 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
