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The Morals Of Business Students

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.

Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt Wins Zócalo Book Prize

2 months agoNews : Reason

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 Religion. Show More Summary

And the Zocalo Book Prize goes too...

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."

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

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 [...]

Haidt’s Biased Survey Evidence on Libertarians (Updated)

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 [...]

Haidt’s Biased Survey Evidence on Libertarians

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 [...]

The best psychology books of 2012

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

Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W.: Let's Not Give Up on Reason in Politics: A Response to Jonathan Haidt's 'The Righteous Mind'

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.

Obsession With Righteousness A Normal Quality Of Human Minds

7 months agoOdd : FuturePundit

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

The Culture War's New Battles

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...

Jost Haidt

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 [...]

Haidt's Vindication of Fusionist Conservatism and Aristotelian Liberalism

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

Of Liberals, Conservatives, Rationalists, and Moral Foundations

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

Jonathan Haidt's Darwinian Conservatism

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

Somebody Finally Says It

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 [...]

Don’t get high on what you create

Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind, talks to the New York Times about...

The Righteous Road to Ruin

11 months agoNews : Truthdig

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.”

Jonathan Haidt

(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.

The Evolution of The Moral Brain

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

The Last Lion at Long Last

(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

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