Quotes by : Jonathan Haidt

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can....

Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.

Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the....

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and....

Idealism easily becomes dangerous because it brings with it, almost inevitably, the belief that the ends....

The author found participants in a study able to come up with more reasons to support their position....

But if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning....

It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because unhappily....

Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that....

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new....