If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take… — 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… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“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
Psychotherapy can help some people, especially people who are neurotic, who are always making problems for themselves. We are like a rider… — 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
To understand most important ideas in psychology, you need to understand how the mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. We… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“first principle of moral psychology: Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.” — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“This is the essence of psychological rationalism: We grow into our rationality as caterpillars grow into butterflies. If the caterpillar eats enough… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I think the greatest work in social psychology from the 1950s and '60s is enormously important. I wish every high school kid… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“If you want to change people's minds, you've got to talk to their elephants.” — 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
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
“The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.” — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
We scientists have way too much a tendency to simplify problems. I guess it actually comes to us naturally. Take the simplest… — 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
