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Love and work are like water and sunshine for plants, essential needs that help people grow and thrive. Haidt explains that moral judgments often start with gut feelings, a rider that serves the elephant when reason stalls. He also argues that most people are morally motivated, except for a small group who lack that drive.

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Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

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You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

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People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.

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Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

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If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

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Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.

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Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

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[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality…

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Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism,…

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If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish,…

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While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence…

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People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near…

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If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity…

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Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended…

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Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners…

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I think that we Americans, in particular, tend to think too directly about problems. If there's a problem we want to basically…

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Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being…

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It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People…

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The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson…

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I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how…

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But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are…

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My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered…

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You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right…

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Psychotherapy can help some people, especially people who are neurotic, who are always making problems for themselves. We are like a rider…

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Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking…

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long…

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People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to…

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There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds.…

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Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with…

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People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of…

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What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative,…

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Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking…

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Some comedians really are funnier than others. Some people really are more beautiful than others. But these are true only because of…

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Happiness requires changing yourself and changing your world. It requires pursuing your own goals and fitting in with others. Different people at…

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And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others…

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The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail…

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Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the…

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Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people… Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office…

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On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is…

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“Our minds have the potential to become righteous about many different concerns, and only a few of these concerns are activated during childhood. Other”

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