Jonathan Haidt
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
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Why Trump Persists
Nytimes.com 17h 13 tweets
Voters are less tolerant, less empathetic and less interested in integrity than many political analysts thought.
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Jonathan Haidt Here's a really interesting political psych column by , on whether conservative thinking is more "natural" or "default" than progressive thinking, which flowers especially in times of low threat. Intriguing quote from 12h
[Easy Chair] An Incoherent Truth, by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Harper's magazine 6d 17 tweets
Last fall, Tobi Haslett, a young writer and critic with Marxist leanings, noticed a shift in the contours of popular intellectual debate. “Something is happening out there in the dark fields of ‘the discourse,’ ” Haslett wrote in Bookforum....
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Jonathan Haidt This is so good, so calming, so conducive to humility, good thinking, productive discussion. From 13h
Political Attitudes, Partisanship, and Merger Activity by Ran Duchin, Abed El Karim Farroukh, Jarrad Harford, Tarun Patel :: SSRN
Papers.ssrn.com 42h 1 tweets
This paper provides novel evidence that similarity in employees’ political attitudes plays a role in mergers and acquisitions. Using detailed data on individual
Jonathan Haidt As partisanship rises, the success of company mergers is increasingly affected by the match of employee politics, suggests a new paper by Ran Duchin et al. 42h
Callosal Failure: One Hundred Years of Viewpoint Diversity Activism - HxA
Heterodox Academy 9d 14 tweets
Callosal disconnection syndrome, more colloquially known as ‘split brain syndrome’ may be a perfect metaphor for the viewpoint diversity movement up to now.
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Jonathan Haidt Another supremely important article from , on the intellectual history of the academy. Here he shows that advocates of viewpoint diversity (like me) are just the latest in a 100-year-old debate over identity, positionality, and knowledge: 5d
Why We Fall in Love: The Paradoxical Psychology of Romance and Why Frustration Is Necessary for Satisfaction
Maria Popova - Brain Pickings 1000d 5 tweets
“All love stories are frustration stories… To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn’t know you had.”
Why We Ended Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins
The Atlantic 5d 31 tweets
Eliminating an unfair tradition made our university more accessible to all talented students.
Implications of ideological bias in social psychology on clinical practice
Wiley Online Library 5d 2 tweets
Ideological bias is a worsening but often neglected concern for social and psychological sciences, affecting a range of professional activities and relationships, from self‐reported willingness to di...
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Jonathan Haidt Here is a new paper on how ideological bias may affect the practice of clinical psychology; psychologists should serve all clients compassionately, even those who differ from themselves 5d
Baby and adult brains 'sync up' during play: It's not your imagination -- you and your baby really are on the same wavelength
ScienceDaily 13d 2 tweets
A team of researchers has conducted the first study of how baby and adult brains interact during natural play, and they found measurable connections in their neural activity. In other words, baby and adult brain activity rose and fell together as...
Making Stakeholder Capitalism a Reality | by Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca
Laura D. Tyson - Project Syndicate 16d 3 tweets
The recent push by big business in favor of a more socially and environmentally conscious corporate-governance model is not just empty rhetoric. With the public losing trust in business and markets, it is now in everyone's interest to reform the...
Jonathan Haidt A good insight on why the Business Roundtable publicly embraced stakeholder capitalism, from 14d
Jonathan Haidt on Polarization, Social Media and its Effects on Society
Venture Stories 16d 1 tweets
Jonathan Haidt (@JonHaidt), a social psychologist at NYU-Stern, joins Erik on this episode. They Discuss:<br>- What are the problems with social media and are they temporary or lasting issues<br>- How social media has affected Gen Z<br>- What led to...
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Jonathan Haidt I talked with about social media: a deep dive into how it changed from 2009-2013, becoming much more damaging for teen mental health, & for democracy. 16d
Canceling | ContraPoints
YouTube 20d 16 tweets
End of Year Letter, 2019 | Ethical Systems
Ethicalsystems.org 16d 1 tweets
Jonathan Haidt Here is my End of Year Letter for . I welcome our new Exec Director, , and point out conflicting trends that will make ethical leadership more difficult in coming years, e.g., more inter-stakeholder conflict. 16d
The Extremely Online Decade of ‘Get Out,’ Fake Meat and Crystals
Nytimes.com 22d 2 tweets
The 2010s, reviewed.
Warren Zevon’s Wisdom for the 2020s
Peggy Noonan - WSJ 19d 2 tweets
Sizing up impeachment, the presidential campaign and the prospects for striking back at the ‘woke.’
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Jonathan Haidt Any essay that quotes Warren Zevon is likely to be good. This one, by , is great, all the way through: 19d
It’s Almost 2020. Have We Really Gotten Wiser?
Nytimes.com 31d 11 tweets
Judging the past by the values of today can be its own kind of intolerance.
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Jonathan Haidt Here is a beautiful essay by on "chronocentrism": prejudice against other times, analogous to ethnocentrism. He issues a plea for what we might call "temporal humility," which would help us resolve our disputes today. 21d
Polarization in the Twittersphere: What 86 million tweets reveal about the political makeup of…
Medium 23d 4 tweets
On Dec. 17, 2019, Knight Foundation released a two-part study analyzing the political dynamics of 86 million tweets. Download part one of…
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Jonathan Haidt Here's a really interesting report on the politics and asymmetries of Twitter users, from , well summarized by Evette Treewater Alexander: 23d
Why Do New York Times Readers Love to Hate Bret Stephens?
Psychology Today 25d 8 tweets
What the award-winning columnist writes is not what his detractors read.
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Jonathan Haidt Here's an excellent column by on how the psychology of "moral pollution" drives so much of life online, in this case the efforts to drag and cancel Bret Stephens. Guilt-by-association warps intellectual life. 25d
Government Standards Are Making 5-Year-Olds and Kindergarten Teachers Miserable
Lenore Skenazy - Reason.com 26d 3 tweets
Increased academic pressure and testing in kindergarten is bringing everyone to tears—including the teachers. When Dr. Peter Gray wrote a piece
How to Address the Mental Health Crisis in Generation Z
Psychology Today 27d 3 tweets
Rising rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide call for solutions.
Jonathan Haidt From my conversation with , here are suggestions for how teachers, parents, and therapists can help Gen Z overcome high rates of depression/anxiety: 13d
What’s on the far side of the Moon?
Universal-Sci 29d 1 tweets
Looking up at the silvery orb of the Moon, you might recognize familiar shadows and shapes on its face from one night to the next. You see the same view of the Moon our early ancestors did as it lighted their way after sundown