“ In all human cultures, the social world has two clear dimensions: a horizontal dimension of closeness or liking, and a vertical one of hierarchy or status. . . . Now imagine yourself happily moving ar… Jonathan Haidt
“ Everyone cares about fairness, but there are two major kinds. On the left, fairness often implies equality, but on the right it means proportionality —people should be rewarded in proportion to what t… Jonathan Haidt
“ The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin Jonathan Haidt
“ Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand. Jonathan Haidt
“ The author found participants in a study able to come up with more reasons to support their position but not anymore likely to change their minds based on contradictory evidence. In effect, they enlis… Jonathan Haidt
“ We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things. Jonathan Haidt
“ With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting. Jonathan Haidt
“ The emotion of disgust evolved initially to optimize responses to the omnivore's dilemma. Individuals who had a properly calibrated sense of disgust were able to consume more calories than their overl… Jonathan Haidt
“ Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only… Jonathan Haidt
“ The philosopher Edmund Pincoffs has argued that consequentialists and deontologists worked together to convince Westerners in the twentieth century that morality is the study of moral quandaries and d… Jonathan Haidt
“ If you want your children to grow up to be healthy and independent, you should hold them, hug them, cuddle them, and love them. Give them a secure base and they will explore and then conquer the world… Jonathan Haidt
“ Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking. Jonathan Haidt
“ Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice. Jonathan Haidt
“ I quickly realized that there are two main kinds of diversity—demographic and moral. ... Once you make this distinction, you see that nobody can coherently even want moral diversity. If you are pro-ch… Jonathan Haidt
“ Baumeister's point is that we have a deep need to understand violence and cruelty through what he calls "the myth of pure evil." Of this myth's many parts, the most important are that evildoers are pu… Jonathan Haidt
“ Those who think money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop … People would be happier and healthier if they took more time off and spent it with their family and friends, yet America has l… Jonathan Haidt
“ Idealism easily becomes dangerous because it brings with it, almost inevitably, the belief that the ends justify the means. If you are fighting for good or for God, what matters is the outcome, not th… Jonathan Haidt
“ The strong version of the adversity hypothesis might be true, but only if we add caveats: For adversity to be maximally beneficial, it should happen at the right time (young adulthood), to the right p… Jonathan Haidt
