Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives

TED · 739K views · 2008-09-18 · 19:14

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Psychologist Jonathan Haidt presents his moral foundations research in a TED talk. He argues that liberals and conservatives weigh a different set of moral values, which helps explain political divides.

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Psychology & human behavior US politics & elections

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jerf · 2018-10 · Recommendation
Jonathon Haidt has actually done some great scientific work on the real differences between liberals and conservatives. This is a shortish version: [VIDEO] There's also some more detailed and longer versions if you poke around on YouTube a bit, plus a book you can buy if you're really interested. I don't think your characterization of either side is particularly accurate. Neither side is utilitarian, and both sides are plenty deontological, just with different rule sets. Both sides are rationalizing deeply-held instinctual beliefs, or the lack thereof.
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mistermann · 2018-03 · Recommendation
Fair enough, but it wouldn't have made any difference. Disagreement with this particular aspect of the local culture will get you a downvote, not a discussion. Any discussion, if you're lucky to get one, would be better described as a re-education lecture, to teach you the "facts" of "how things are". Jonathan Haidt has studied this psychological phenomenon quite extensively and in my opinion it does a good job of explaining the recent unusual behavior of the public, it's a shame no one's interested. The moral roots of liberals and conservatives [VIDEO]
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carsongross · 2016-10 · Recommendation
Jonathan Haidt has done a lot of work on this problem: [VIDEO] I would like to see peaceful political secessionism happen, so that as we sort ourselves out ideologically we can also sort ourselves out physically and sovereign-ly.
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