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Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives

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Psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the different moral foundations that underlie liberal and conservative political beliefs.

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.

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carsongrossin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Whether You’re a Democrat or Republican, Your Social Media Is an Echo Chamber”

Jonathan Haidt has done a lot of work on this problem: link to this video I would like to see peaceful political secessionism happen, so that as we sort ourselves out ideologically we can also sort ourselves out physically and sovereign-ly.
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On “Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting”

Fair enough, but it wouldn't have made any difference. Disagreement with this particular aspect of the local culture will get you a downvote, not a discussion. Any discussion, if you're lucky to get one, would be better described as a re-education lecture, to teach you the "facts" of "how things are". Jonathan Haidt has studied this psychological phenomenon quite extensively and in my opinion it does a good job of explaining the recent unusual behavior of the public, it's a shame no one's interested. The moral roots of liberals and conservatives link to this video
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On “Ways people trying to do good accidentally do harm instead and how to avoid them”

Jonathon Haidt has actually done some great scientific work on the real differences between liberals and conservatives. This is a shortish version: link to this video There's also some more detailed and longer versions if you poke around on YouTube a bit, plus a book you can buy if you're really interested. I don't think your characterization of either side is particularly accurate. Neither side is utilitarian, and both sides are plenty deontological, just with different rule sets. Both sides are rationalizing deeply-held instinctual beliefs, or the lack thereof.
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On “At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics say they’re isolated”

I think employees could use some training on how liberals and conservatives think very differently. When I became familiar with Jonathan Haidt and his moral foundations theory, I was able to better understand where conservatives are coming from, and even became a lot better at persuading. For example, when talking about confederate statues coming down, a conservative will respond to arguments around why it's traditional and patriotic to remove those statues (along with why it's fair) whereas a liberal will concentrate only on why it's fair. Make an argument that focuses only on the fairness aspect and the conservative will remain unconvinced and the liberal will think the conservative is a h…
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