American - Psychologist | October 19, 1963 -
People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.
Jonathan Haidt
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If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
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People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.
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The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
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Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
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When I think about life on Earth, there should not be a species like us. And if there was, we should be out in the jungle killing each other in small groups. That's what you should expect.
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Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
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Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
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It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.
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Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
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There's an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he's a member of your ethnic group.
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When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
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