Jonathan Haidt

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Jonathan Haidt

19-Oct-1963


United States


Psychologist

Jonathan David Haidt ( HYTE; born October 19, 1963) is an American social psychologist and author. He is a Professor of Business and Society and the Thomas Cooley Chair of Ethical Leadership at the New York University Stern School of Business. Haidt's main areas of study are the psychology of morality and moral emotions. Haidt's main contributions to the field of psychology come from his theory of moral foundations, which attempts to explain the origins of human moral reasoning on the basis of innate "modules", resulting from biological and cultural evolution. The theory was later further developed to explain varitation in moral reasoning as it relates to political ideology, positing that people arrive at different political orientations due to prioritizing different sets of morals. Haidt's current research applies moral psychology to business ethics. Haidt has written multiple best-sell… Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt

QUOTES BY Jonathan Haidt


The reason why we all feel we have to give our kid a smartphone by the time they're ten is because everyone else did. And your kid says, you know, dad, I'm the only one. I'm being left out. So we're all, you know, we're all doing that.

We're over protecting our children offline and under protecting them online.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.

The lesson Buddha and Marcus Aurelius had taught centuries earlier: "Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it".

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

Science is a smorgasbord, and Google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

Nowadays, secular people often see the Enlightenment as a battle between two mortal enemies; on one side was science, with its principal weapon, reason, and on the other side was religion, with its ancient shield of superstition. Reason defeated superstition, light replaced darkness.

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