When I think about life on Earth, there should not be a species like us. And if there was, we should be… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies. — 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
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams. — 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
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
Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a… — 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 Image
Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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