Sunday, February 17, 2013
Room 203 (Hynes Convention Center)
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist whose work has elucidated basic, and often conflicting, dimensions of moral impulses. Author of the recent (2012) The Righteous Mind, he has argued that understanding these differences partially clarifies the intensity of religious and political differences. His talk will describe evidence showing how the righteous mind can be effectively understood in terms of these dimensions, and the role played by their differences in many social conflicts.