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
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
Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's… — 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
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
Happiness requires changing yourself and changing your world. It requires pursuing your own goals and fitting in with others. Different people at… — 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
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
