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
Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Words of wisdom, the meaning of life,perhaps even the answer sought by Borges's librarians—all of these may wash over us every day,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the… — 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
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
Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
In college, I was dead set on being a philosophy major, because I wanted to figure out the meaning of life. Four… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Words of wisdom, the meaning of life, p e r h a p s even the answer sought by Borges's librarians—all of… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“life is much like a movie we walk into well after its opening scene, and we will have to step out long… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I think that we are passionate creatures who really live our fullest life when we are deeply engaged, when we feel successes,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“ Webster's Third New International Dictionary defines delusion as "a false conception and persistent belief unconquerable by reason in something that has… — 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
