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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics & Religion (eBook)

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  • Author: Jonathan Haidt
  • Page Length: 530 pages
  • Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns.
  • In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you're ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.

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  • Author: Jonathan Haidt
  • Page Length: 530 pages
  • Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns.
  • In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you're ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.

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Funny, he describes himself as RIGHT leaning.
As a person with a psych and neuroscience background, I would not recommend this book.
it's the equivalent of reading a book about the benefits of smoking during the 80's

It twists a vast majority of the research to fit a narrative. It sells books but it's junk science.
the psychology field is currently in a dark age after a brief renaissance in the early 2000's. During that golden age we learned a lot about how people behave.
Unfortunately a lot of what we learned wasn't good. Learning we're stupid violent selfish apes wasn't great for the field.
Not since the Milgrim experiments has psychology been so divisive. People refuse to even call it STEM because of the uncomfortable truths uncovered.

And so books like this have cropped up to reassure humanity were different from animals Researchers who discovered just how simian and predictable humans can be have been pushed out of academia for their blasphemy. Where are those researchers now?
Receiving giant pay checks from the social media mega corps
they're currently controlling your feeds, tricking you with like buttons, and rewiring your brains with the things they learned.

I encourage people interested in this topic to read more about how the brain affects not just political leanings but how one thinks in general. If you are holding a phone or consume any digital information you owe it to yourself to understand how your brain processes that stimulus and reacts to it.

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Nov 10, 2024
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kjwagener
Nov 10, 2024
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I don't get why folks are calling Haidt a Right Winger. He's a self-described liberal Democrat. The only difference between him and much of the liberal establishment is that he wants to understand his political opponents, not demonize them.
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eegorr
Nov 11, 2024
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Quote from Berglekutt :
As a person with a psych and neuroscience background, I would not recommend this book.
it's the equivalent of reading a book about the benefits of smoking during the 80's

It twists a vast majority of the research to fit a narrative. It sells books but it's junk science.
the psychology field is currently in a dark age after a brief renaissance in the early 2000's. During that golden age we learned a lot about how people behave.
Unfortunately a lot of what we learned wasn't good. Learning we're stupid violent selfish apes wasn't great for the field.
Not since the Milgrim experiments has psychology been so divisive. People refuse to even call it STEM because of the uncomfortable truths uncovered.

And so books like this have cropped up to reassure humanity were different from animals Researchers who discovered just how simian and predictable humans can be have been pushed out of academia for their blasphemy. Where are those researchers now?
Receiving giant pay checks from the social media mega corps
they're currently controlling your feeds, tricking you with like buttons, and rewiring your brains with the things they learned.

I encourage people interested in this topic to read more about how the brain affects not just political leanings but how one thinks in general. If you are holding a phone or consume any digital information you owe it to yourself to understand how your brain processes that stimulus and reacts to it.
Nobody outside the tobacco industry wrote books about the benefits of smoking in the 80s. Prove me wrong.
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booboloo
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Quote from GinnyMaive :
This guy is a right wing nut job if that's your thing you will like this book 😂
He's the most mild normie around.

I guess people are just sore he's noticing the left hasn't escaped religion, its attempt at suppression just comes back in dysfunctional form.
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mostholycerebus
Nov 11, 2024
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Great book, his new one on the effects of screens should be required reading for parents.

He's a self professed academic leftist who was surprised by his findings, but in the interests of science published what he found.
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MaroonVest7333
Nov 11, 2024
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Quote from slodojo :
I have to disagree with your take… imo he seems like a legitimate researcher and academic. He is not just some pop-sci guru trying to sell books with their own opinions. Maybe his newer books about the dangers of social media are a little more pop-sci, but this one is predates that and is based on his own research.

This is not the type of book that is supposed to reassure us we are somehow special enlightened beings compared to animals. I just read the books Behave and Determined by Sapolsky, the ape researcher and neuroscientist who doesn't believe in free will, and I was surprised how much he referenced Haidt's work.

It's been about 10 years since I read this. At the time, I found it to be really good and I think its insights are true and are helpful about understanding how we all think.

I'd highly recommend this book for anyone that thinks they might find it interesting. At $2, why not??

And for the people wondering about his politics, he definitely started out left leaning! He studied political psychology with the goal to help democrats win more elections. But his research led him to be more centrist.

It's a great book to read anytime, but maybe now more than ever.
I agree. It's an excellent read.
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