The new literati of the genre include David Brooks, Jonathan Haidt, Dan Ariely, and Daniel Kahneman.
The combination of defensive but mostly supportive responses makes it seem likely Haidt is on to something.
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Haidt sees the role that reason plays as akin to the job of the White House press secretary.
The remainder is explained by the hostility to non-liberal ideas hypothesized by Haidt and radiated, perhaps unwittingly, by Jost.
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University of Virginia professor of psychology Jonathan Haidt is a pioneer in the scientific study of moral emotion and cognition.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jonathan Haidt.
We can see liberalism, as Haidt seems to, as a deviation from the default that tunes down the binding dimensions of the human moral sensibility.
Haidt has tended to characterize conservative morality, resting on as it does on all five moral foundations, as more complex or in some sense full-bodied than liberal morality, which rests almost entirely on just the two individualizing foundations.
Haidt fails to grapple meaningfully with the question of why nearly all of the best minds in science find liberal ideas to be closer to the mark with respect to evolution, human nature, mental health, close relationships, intergroup relations, ethics, social justice, conflict resolution, environmental sustainability, and so on.
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For a study published last year, researchers Jonathan Haidt and Jennifer A. Silvers invited nursing mothers to bring their babies and watch a clip from "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in which a musician paid moving tribute to his former teacher for steering him away from a life of crime and gangs.
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