Jonathan Haidt

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

— Jonathan Haidt

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

— Jonathan Haidt

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

— Jonathan Haidt

Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment…

— Jonathan Haidt

“The ethic of autonomy is based on the idea that people are, first and foremost, autonomous individuals with wants, needs, and preferences.…

— Jonathan Haidt

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

I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a…

— Jonathan Haidt

“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…

— Jonathan Haidt

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

— Jonathan Haidt

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

— Jonathan Haidt

If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take…

— Jonathan Haidt

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

— Jonathan Haidt

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

— Jonathan Haidt

“Nonetheless, if you are trying to change an organization or a society and you do not consider the effects of your changes…

— Jonathan Haidt

If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then…

— Jonathan Haidt

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name…

— Jonathan Haidt

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

— Jonathan Haidt

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

“Morality binds and blinds. This is not just something that happens to people on the other side. We all get sucked into…

— Jonathan Haidt

“Anything that binds people together into dense networks of trust makes people less selfish. In”

— Jonathan Haidt

“People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral…

— Jonathan Haidt

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

— Jonathan Haidt

“Durkheim, who said: “What is moral is everything that is a source of solidarity, everything that forces man to … regulate his actions by…

— Jonathan Haidt

I believe that an evolutionary approach specifying the foundation of our moral sense can allow us to appreciate Hindu and Muslim cultures…

— Jonathan Haidt

When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand…

— Jonathan Haidt