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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Reservations | Comedy Cellar
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Jonathan Haidt In NYC: join me and 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) 8h
The Avalon Project : The Federalist Papers No. 10
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Jonathan Haidt The essay was inspired by some extraordinary passages in Federalist #10, by James Madison, where he discusses the psychology of "faction". Here are three quotes: 9h
Jonathan Haidt Explains How Social Media Drives Polarization | Amanpour and Company
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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 Haidt I talked with 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 9h
Inconvenient Murders
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The global surge in Jew-hatred barely registers in the West.
To Fight Polarization, Ask, “How Does That Policy Work?”
Behavioral Scientist - Behavioral Scientist 10d 14 tweets
When people discover that they don’t know as much as they thought they did, something interesting happens: their political attitudes become less extreme.
7 Ways of Looking at Diversity | Inside Higher Ed
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The diversity of ways we talk about diversity.
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Jonathan Haidt This is such a clarifying essay, listing the "7 ways of looking at diversity," from . Most of the 7 are useful in organizations; few organizations would thrive using only one of them. 27h
Jacob + Phil: Mormon + Marxist
The Village Square - Respect and Rebellion 34h 1 tweets
An Academic, Drummer, Atheist, Marxist and A Writer, Pianist, Christian
Davos Manifesto 2020: The Universal Purpose of a Company in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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The Davos Manifesto is the World Economic Forum's view of 'stakeholder capitalism'.
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Jonathan Haidt Here's a good, clear, and detailed description of what it means to be an ethical company today, from Klaus Schwab, The Davos Manifesto. Opening lines... 34h
Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings - Richard A. Klein, Michelangelo Vianello, Fred Hasselman, Byron G. Adams, Reginald B. Adams, Sinan Alper, Mark Aveyard, Jordan R. Axt, Mayowa T. Babalola, Štěpán Bahník, Ri
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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...
Jonathan Haidt When you add Frimer's replication in study 1 to the successful replication in the Many Labs 2 study, it seems that Moral Foundations Theory is coming through the replicability crisis quite well: 55h
PsycNET
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Jonathan Haidt In our original paper (with Jesse Graham and ) we noted that Repub/Dem convention speeches were strategic communications, appealing to broad audiences; simple word counts don’t capture the difference: 55h
Do liberals and conservatives use different moral languages? Two replications and six extensions of Graham, Haidt, and Nosek’s (2009) moral text analysis
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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 Haidt A 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: 55h
Ep. 67: Dr. Jonathan Haidt — How to Correct the Great Untruths That Are Harming Young People
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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...
Journalists Against Free Speech
City Journal 22d 14 tweets
Once unswerving defenders of the First Amendment, members of the press increasingly support restricting expression.
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Jonathan Haidt When I talk with journalists, many report dynamics similar to what happened on many campuses in 2015-2017: a generational divide over whether to stick to professional standards or fight for ideological goals. Here gives a roundup: 5d
Too much tribalism? National service to the rescue
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In this highly polarized era, national service could heal a divided nation.
Most people are bad at arguing. These 2 techniques will make you better.
Brian Resnick - Vox 743d 11 tweets
How to argue better, according to science.
A Threat To Democracy? What Social Media Has Done To Us
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Are social networks driving us into partisan factions at the expense of the common good? We look at social media and democracy.
Episode 73: Ilana Redstone, Heterodox Sociology
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Ilana Redstone discusses challenges in the field of sociology with respect to viewpoint diversity, and ways to improve research and teaching in discipline
TOOLS
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Jonathan Haidt For tools you can use in high school to encourage open inquiry and interest in diverse viewpoints, see this page at 9d
The Coddling of the American Mind - Wiser Kids
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Jonathan Haidt For a page with specific advice for parents, please see this page: 9d
16 - Jeffrey Sachs
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