Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind, recently began teaching at NYU-Stern School of Business. He tells Tamar Gendler of Yale what he’s learned about morality and the business world: Watch the entire video here, and subscribe to The Mind Report here.
The
social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has
just won the third annual $5,000 book prize from the Los
Angeles-based public affairs group Zócalo Public Square, for his
great work
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and
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This year's winner of the third annual book prize (and $5,000) from the folks at Zócalo Public Square is social psychologist Jonathan Haidt for "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion."
Jonathan Haidt is everywhere these days, giving interviews and TED talks, promoting his working papers in the media, writing for the websites yourmorals.org and civilpolitics.org, and publishing The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (New York: Pantheon Books, 2012). A moral psychologist by training, Haidt has successfully cleared the jump [...]
In his book The Righteous Mind (review coming soon) and in a coauthored paper with Ravi Iyer and others, moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt claims that libertarians are essentially amoral(): they care less about care, fairness, authority, loyalty, and sanctity than conservatives and liberals and care most of all about liberty. (I blogged the latter study [...]
In his book The Righteous Mind (review coming soon) and in a coauthored paper with Ravi Iyer and others, moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt claims that libertarians are essentially amoral: they care less about care, fairness, authority, loyalty, and sanctity than conservatives and liberals and care most of all about liberty. (I blogged the latter study [...]
It's the season for Christmas book lists and we've trawled through them, looking for the psychology-themed tomes earning a recommendation.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by psychologist Jonathan...Show More Summary
Haidt maintains that when we confront a moral or political question, our first reaction is intuitive. We use reason to defend our intuitions rather than to form them.
Among the couple of dozen books I'm currently reading interleaved (which I find a great way to make more connections between different pieces of information) is Jonathan Haidt's very interesting The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. Show More Summary
In an interview, Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Religion and Politics, describes the evolution of the culture war. What he observed during the conventions: I was mostly struck by how much the...
Research psychologist John Jost reviews the recent book, “The Righteous Mind,” by research psychologist Jonathan Haidt. Some of my thoughts on Haidt’s book are here. And here’s some of Jost’s review: Haidt’s book is creative, interesting, and provocative.... The book shines a new light on moral psychology and presents a bold, confrontational [...]
Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind has provoked a lot of discussion and controversy primarily because of his claim that conservative Republicans have a better grasp of moral psychology than do liberal Democrats. Haidt argues that...Show More Summary
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL I just finished reading The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt. The book got attention mainly for its claim that political liberals recognize only two-and-a-half...Show More Summary
More clearly than in any of his previous writing, Jonathan Haidt's new book--The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion--shows his movement towards Darwinian conservatism. And now his friends are wondering,...Show More Summary
A couple of lawyers I know have poisoned my mind about prosecutors—they say that the average prosecutor is not that intelligent, overly righteous, and is mainly looking to win some kind of public office. If you think that’s about right, you’ll like Matt Taibbi’s latest: But the Holders of the world do not want to [...]
Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind, talks to the New York Times about...
Jonathan Haidt, who believes we are hard-wired to be selfish, mistakes conformity and obedience to authority for the moral life in his new book, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion.”
(Todd Zywicki) I’ve been reading “The Righteous Mind” over the past few weeks, which I highly recommend. A nifty article in the Washington Times today profiles Jonathan Haidt and the book.
Drawing upon the narrative of his new book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, Dr. Jonathan Haidt gave a lecture entitled “The Rationalist Delusion in Moral Psychology,” on April 24, 2012 to members of Teachers College at Columbia University. Show More Summary
(Steven Hayward) Lots of good books out right now deserving comment and reflection, including Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind (spent the day with him last Friday), Jonah Goldberg’s The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the...Show More Summary