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THE RIGHTEOUS MIND
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
By Jonathan Haidt
Estimated Reading Time: 55 minutes
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Imagine you are sitting at a dinner party when someone makes a claim that strikes you as morally outrageous. Before you can even formulate a response, you feel it: a flash of heat, a tightening in your chest, a surge of certainty that what you just heard is wrong. Only then, a split second later, does your reasoning mind kick in to construct an argument.
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
By Jonathan Haidt
Estimated Reading Time: 55 minutes
**Intuitions come first, reasoning second.** Your moral judgments arise automatically. Your conscious mind then construc
**The mind is like a rider on an elephant.** The rider is conscious reasoning. The elephant is intuition and emotion. Th
**There are six moral foundations.** Care, fairness, loyalty, authority, sanctity, and liberty. Different people emphasi
**WEIRD people are outliers.** Most psychological research studies Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic p
**Liberals and conservatives emphasize different foundations.** Liberals focus on care and fairness. Conservatives empha
**Morality binds and blinds.** It creates group cohesion but also makes us blind to the perspectives of outsiders.
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Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. He earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and previously taught at the University of Virginia. Haidt's research centers on moral and political psychology, as explored in his influential book The Righteous Mind. His work continues to examine societal issues, with his latest book, The Anxious Generation, building on themes from The Coddling of the American Mind. Haidt actively engag…
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