The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics & Religion
Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, has a riveting explanation for the deepening and seemingly intractable partisan division in America’s politics. Turns out it has a lot more to do with the basics of human psychology and our moral reasoning habits than we’d care to admit.
The Righteous Mind: Q&A with Dr. Jonathan Haidt
Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, shares a riveting explanation for the deepening and seemingly intractable partisan division in America’s politics. Turns out it has a lot more to do with the basics of human psychology and our moral reasoning habits than we’d care to admit.
Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, has a riveting explanation for the deepening and seemingly intractable partisan division in America’s politics. Turns out it has a lot more to do with the basics of human psychology and our moral reasoning habits than we’d care to admit. And – strangely enough – “elephants” are involved. Whether you’re frustrated by our inability to engage constructively to solve problems, or just permanently perplexed by the thinking of people on the opposite side of the political divide, you won’t want to miss Jon Haidt. You’ll never see politics quite the same again – with the way things have been going lately, we think that’s probably a good thing. Learn more about Haidt, below.
Mentioned in this program:
- CivilPolitics.org
- YourMorals.org
- Heterodox Academy
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- The Coddling of the American Mind, cover story by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic
- The Big Sort by Bill Bishop
- My Wife and My Mother-in-Law, illustration by William Ely Hill
- Alan Abramowitz, American political scientist and author
- It’s Even Worse Than It Looks by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
- The Parties Versus the People by Mickey Edwards
- Also – check out the list of Good Reads (and watches) below.
This program was originally recorded on September 11, 2012 and was released on the Village SquareCast on September 3, 2020. Check out event photos here. Episode 10 of the Village SquareCast is Dr. Haidt’s talk. Episode 11 is Q&A with Dr. Haidt, plus reflections from audience members.
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Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “height”) is a social psychologist at the NYU-Stern School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, and spent most of his career (1995-2011) at the University of Virginia. Haidt’s research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultures–including the cultures of American progressive, conservatives, and libertarians. Haidt is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis, and of The New York Times bestseller The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. Haidt’s most recent book, co-written with Greg Lukianoff, is The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. At NYU-Stern, he is applying his research on moral psychology to business ethics, asking how companies can structure and run themselves in ways that will be resistant to ethical failures (see EthicalSystems.org).
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