Jonathan Haidt Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Jonathan Haidt quotes and sayings page 4 (psychologist). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 42 we have.
“I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.”
“Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.”
“Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.”
“The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.”
“Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.”
“Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.”
“Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.”
“If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.”
“Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.”
“The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.”
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