Tag Archives: Jonathan Haidt

The Rationalist Delusion by Jonathan Haidt

Posted on December 14, 2017 by PaulVK

5:30 When you lose your emotion areas you don’t become hyper rational but you become unable to think.

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Three things that changed the world for girls

Posted on November 17, 2017 by PaulVK

How can we explain what has blown up campuses in recent years as it especially pertains to girls. The loss of unsupervised play The ubiquity of social media (see Reputation Savaging) The political polarization and the purification of our institutions … Continue reading →

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Nicki Crick Reputation Savaging

Posted on November 17, 2017 by PaulVK

Women are just as aggressive as men but they express it in different ways. http://www.startribune.com/nicki-crick-u-expert-on-female-aggression/176518711/

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Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Haidt

Posted on November 17, 2017 by PaulVK

32:30 Humans are ultra-social apes. We evolved to have these low level animistic religions. That’s what we’re designed for. As individuals we’re stupid, tribal creatures with post-hoc reasoning. But when we get together the whole can be vastly smarter than … Continue reading →

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Class Divide Fuels Political Divide

Posted on July 21, 2017 by PaulVK

https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/888365229448597504

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Tim Keller and Jonathan Haidt on Veritas Forum

Posted on March 2, 2017 by PaulVK

There is a wealth of great points in this video that you can mine especially from Keller’s points. Before Charles Taylor’s work became so popular Keller was aware of it and I remember in one recording Keller making an off-handed … Continue reading →

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Tyler Cowen interviews Jonathan Haidt

Posted on March 28, 2016 by PaulVK

Medium HT.Dreher Things that clearly involve harm, violations of rights, there are certain things that are predisposed to be moralized, but the genius of human beings is because we’re so tribal, we can moralize anything that gets tabbed as being … Continue reading →

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Edsall and Haidt on Trump

Posted on February 24, 2016 by PaulVK

NYTimes and Sanders Purity, Disgust and Trump

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How Liberal Bias has hurt Social Science

Posted on September 17, 2015 by PaulVK

Dreher Lack of Political Diversity in Social Science

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The Coddling of the American Mind

Posted on September 10, 2015 by PaulVK

Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic Some political correctness is the embodiment of what cognitive behavior therapies have been trying to undo in anxious or depressed people. Common Cognitive Distortions A partial list from Robert L. Leahy, Stephen J. F. Holland, … Continue reading →

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