Social psychologist at NYU-Stern. I study moral psych & business ethics. I think social media is damaging democracy so I try to tweet rarely and constructively
Jonathan HaidtIn NYC: join me and @HdxAcademy for an evening of laughs, at Comedy Cellar's HxA benefit show, Dec 19 at 6pm. Comedy loves viewpoint diversity. Reserve tix here (and select Dec 19 on the calendar)
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In a time of heightened political tension, Jonathan Haidt has a good idea of what’s driving this polarized atmosphere around the world. He is a social psycho...
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Jonathan HaidtI talked with @Hari Sreenivasan about how social media changed between 2009 and 2012, creating an "outrage machine" that made the founding fathers' fears about democracy come true. On @AmanpourCoPBS
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When people discover that they don’t know as much as they thought they did, something interesting happens: their political attitudes become less extreme.
Jonathan HaidtThis is such a clarifying essay, listing the "7 ways of looking at diversity," from @EbooPatel. Most of the 7 are useful in organizations; few organizations would thrive using only one of them.
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We conducted preregistered replications of 28 classic and contemporary published findings, with protocols that were peer reviewed in advance, to examine variati...
Do liberals and conservatives tend to use different moral languages? The Moral Foundations Hypothesis states that liberals rely more on foundations of…
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Jonathan HaidtA solid replication of a Moral Foundations Theory finding was just published. In study 1, Jeremy Frimer obtained his own set of sermons from Unitarian and Baptist preachers. When he did what we did, he found what we found:
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My guest this week is professor and author Dr. Jonathan Haidt. We focused on Jon’s recent bestselling book, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas...
Ilana Redstone discusses challenges in the field of sociology with respect to viewpoint diversity, and ways to improve research and teaching in discipline