Monday, January 30, 2012

The Tribal Psychology of Politics

1/30/12.

Jonathan Haidt:

"...Haidt (pronounced like "height") made his name arguing that intuition, not reason, drives moral judgments. People are more like lawyers building a case for their gut feelings than judges reasoning toward truth. He later theorized a series of innate moral foundations that evolution etched into our brains like the taste buds on our tongues—psychological bases that underlie both the individual-protecting qualities that liberals value, like care and fairness, as well as the group-binding virtues favored by conservatives, like loyalty and authority..."

http://chronicle.com/article/Jonathan-Haidt-Decodes-the/130453/

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