The Righteous Mind
2012 social psychology book by Jonathan Haidt / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion is a 2012 social psychology book by Jonathan Haidt, in which the author describes human morality as it relates to politics and religion.
Author | Jonathan Haidt |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Social psychology, evolutionary psychology, political psychology, moral psychology |
Published | 2012 |
Publisher | Pantheon Books |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 419 |
ISBN | 978-0307377906 |
OCLC | 713188806 |
Website | righteousmind |
In the first section, Haidt demonstrates that people's beliefs are driven primarily by intuition, with reason operating mostly to justify beliefs that are intuitively obvious. In the second section, he lays out his theory that the human brain is organized to respond to several distinct types of moral violations, much like a tongue is organized to respond to different sorts of foods. In the last section, Haidt proposes that humans have an innate capacity to sometimes be "groupish" rather than "selfish".