About Jonathan Haidt:
Jonathan David Haidt is a social psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His academic specialization is the psychology of morality and the moral emotions. Haidt is the author of two books: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2006) and The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012), which became a New York Times bestseller. He was named one of the “top global thinkers” by Foreign Policy Magazine, and one of the “top world thinkers” by Prospect magazine. His three TED talks have collectively been viewed more than 4 million times.
Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
Jonathan HaidtGroups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
Jonathan HaidtThe mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.
Jonathan Haidt