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It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.
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Jonathan Haidt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 19
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New York City
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Jonathan David Haidt
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Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.
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I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right now, and we're making a lot of progress on understanding how we actually work, what our moral nature is.
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People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.
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The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are distorted because we look at ourselves in a rose-colored mirror.
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When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, thats fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.
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In college, I was dead set on being a philosophy major, because I wanted to figure out the meaning of life. Four years later I realized philosophy had really nothing to say about the meaning of life, and psychology and literature are really where it's at.
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I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.
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It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.
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Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.
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Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.
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Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.
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Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
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If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.
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If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.
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You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.
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