“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
“moral thinking is more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth:” — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and… — 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
Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side… — 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 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
Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“But if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Many political scientists used to assume that people vote selfishly, choosing the candidate or policy that will benefit them the most. But… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“I reviewed five areas of research showing that moral thinking is more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.” — 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
