Jonathan Haidt
Social psychologist at NYU-Stern. Author of The Righteous Mind. Reflections on how social & moral psychology can improve companies, universities, and societies.
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Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators
Nytimes.com 3h 5 tweets
The ideological bent of those overseeing collegiate life is having the biggest impact on campus culture.
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Jonathan Haidt Sam Abrams gives us a new piece of the puzzle about changes in campus speech climate, which and I missed: Admins who supervise student life are the most politically homogeneous group on campus: 1h
The Rich White Civil War
Nytimes.com 13h 16 tweets
A smarter look at America’s divide.
What Would Happen If Everyone Truly Believed Everything Is One?
Scott Barry Kaufman - Scientific American Blog Network 8d 14 tweets
New research suggests a belief in oneness has broad implications for psychological functioning and compassion for those are outside of our immediate circle
Half Hour of Heterodoxy – Julie Wronski on How Authoritarianism Divides the Democratic Party: Half Hour of Heterodoxy #36 – 31:23
Radiopublic.com 24h 1 tweets
Show Notes In today’s episode, Chris talks to Julie Wronski, professor of political science at the University of Mississippi. In a new paper, she and her coauthors show a difference between the average authoritarianism of Bernie Sanders voters and...
Announcing the 6 Finalists for the Next Big Idea Club Winter Season
Heleo - Heleo 19h 1 tweets
The best new nonfiction titles, as chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink
Has Anyone Ever Actually Poisoned Or Put Razor Blades or Needles in Halloween Candy?
Today I Found Out 47h 1 tweets
Lee asks: How many children have died from people poisoning Halloween candy? Remember your mom sorting through your Halloween candy as a kid, looking for signs of ‘tainted’ candy laced with poison, needles or razor blades?  It turns out, unless she...
The Perfectly Natural Bias for a White Hat
ConscienHealth 26h 1 tweets
Our natural bias favoring a noble idea means we need to be extra careful when making judgements about nutrition and obesity.
This Mortal Coil: Jonathan Haidt
ABC Radio 26h 1 tweets
Are we brining up a generation too precious and sold on great untruths that are setting them up for failure?
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Jonathan Haidt Here's my conversation with Australia's Sarah Macdonald, on ABC Radio Nightlife. We talk about why The Coddling is not just another complaint about "kids these days," and what it is like to work in a place where people assume the worst about each other. . 26h
Moral Pollution In Place of Reasoned Critique
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I was chief researcher and in-house editor for The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. In the book, we outline three misguided principles (“Great Untruths”) that form the foundation of the new moral culture we are...
Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture
The Atlantic 6d 82 tweets
Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness, and race isn’t either.
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Jonathan Haidt has a great essay on implications of major new survey of America's "8 political tribes." Surprise: in 7 tribes, and all races, a large majority dislike political correctness: 5d
‘I had a moral duty’: whistleblowers on why they spoke up
the Guardian 7d 7 tweets
They took on warmongers, sexual abusers and tax dodgers. Would they do it again?
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Single Issue Campaigning and the Polarisation Problem
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In their new book, The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff argue that a polarisation cycle exists at US universities. First, a progressive professor does or says something provocative in response to a real or perceived...
Economic Growth
Our World In Data 535d 6 tweets
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of an economy is a measure of total production. More precisely, it is the monetary value of all goods and services produced within a country or region in a specific time period. While the definition of GDP is...
Media Advisory: Press Conference at NYU Stern with Paul Romer, 2018 Nobel Laureate in Economics - NYU Stern
Stern.nyu.edu 8d 1 tweets
A Complete National Disgrace
Nytimes.com 11d 20 tweets
The Kavanaugh hearings as American nadir.
Today’s Young Worker Is Stressed Out and Anxious
SHRM 8d 1 tweets
With many young workers suffering from mental health disorders, HR departments of the future may need to consider hiring professional therapists to augment the employee assistance programs that many companies offer.
Jonathan Haidt Human Resources professionals are beginning to adapt to rising rates of anxiety among young employees: 8d
Jonathan Haidt
Joshua Spodek 9d 1 tweets
Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He received his B. A. from Yale University in 1985 and his Ph.D. from the Univ…
Soft and Brittle
City Journal 11d 4 tweets
Today’s college students have been raised to view discomfort as intolerable.
Jonathan Haidt A great summary and review of The Coddling, from ; covers the book's structure as a "social science detective story:" 10d
Prius Or Pickup?
Google Books 10d 1 tweets
Two award-winning political scientists provide the psychological key to America's deadlocked politics, showing that we are divided not by ideologies but something deeper: personality differences that appear in everything from politics to parenting...
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Jonathan Haidt if you're wondering why American democracy seems to have decayed so quickly, the graph below gives a big part of the story. When groups hate each other, they more easily believe that the ends justify the means. (From new Hetherington & Weiler book: ) 10d