Jonathan Haidt
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Jonathan David Haidt (born October 19, 1963) is an American moral 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.
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The Anxious Generation
Read the insightsJonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University's Stern School of Business and the author of The Righteous Mind and, with Greg Lukianoff, The Coddling of the American Mind. In The Anxious Generation, Haidt asks why rates of anxiety, depression, and self-harm among adolescents suddenly soared in the early 2010s. His answer is what he calls the “great rewiring of childhood”: the shift from a play-based childhood, full of unsupervised play and real-world risk, to a phone-based childhood lived on smartphones and social media. Haidt explains how that shift harms girls and boys in different ways, how it erodes our spiritual lives, and what parents, schools, tech companies, and governments can do together to give children back a healthier, freer childhood.
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Read the insightsSocial psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible: He’s written a book that allows people of differing political and religious persuasions to put down their weapons and their guards long enough to learn where their moral intuitions come from and why we have such a hard time playing nice.
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Read the insightsThere are three Great Untruths that have begun to coalesce into a cult of “safetyism” in the United States. These untruths fly in the face of ancient wisdom and modern research, and have proven harmful to the individuals and groups who have imbibed them. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt team up to illuminate these untruths and their deleterious effects, as well as suggest some remedies.