{"id":66495,"date":"2012-03-31T16:21:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T00:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16159"},"modified":"2012-03-31T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T00:21:27","slug":"jonathan-haidt-robert-wright-crazy-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/31\/jonathan-haidt-robert-wright-crazy-delicious\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Haidt &amp; Robert Wright: crazy delicious"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Last night I listened to a very long discussion between Robert Wright, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679763996\/geneexpressio-20\">The Moral Animal<\/a>, and Jonathan Haidt, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0307377903\/geneexpressio-20\">The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion<\/a>. If you have been reading my weblog for years there may not be much new, but if you haven&#8217;t, then you&#8217;ll encounter a lot of novel information, in particular from Jonathan Haidt. I was intrigued by Haidt&#8217;s references to evolutionary and anthropology, and I immediately noticed on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JonHaidt\/following\">Twitter<\/a> that of the 17 people he follows, two are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/johnhawks.net\/weblog\">John Hawks<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pantheon.yale.edu\/~pb85\/PaulBloom\/Paul_Bloom.html\">Paul Bloom<\/a>. John is a friend, and Paul Bloom has been highly influential in my own thinking about cognitive psychology (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/046500783X\/geneexpressio-20\">Descarte&#8217;s Baby<\/a>). Additionally, many of the other &#8220;shout outs&#8221; which Haidt makes are familiar to me as well (e.g., Scott Atran, the neo-functionalism of David Sloan Wilson, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of a conventional blog post here a list of comments, reacting mostly to Haidt&#8217;s various assertions.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8211; The biggest &#8220;bombshell&#8221; that Haidt drops is his empirical finding that when people of a given political ideology, going from very liberal to very conservative, are asked to model the opinions of other people &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I listened to a very long discussion between Robert Wright, author of The Moral Animal, and Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. If you have been reading my weblog for years the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2002],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolutionary-psychology","category-jonathan-haidt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66495"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66790,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66495\/revisions\/66790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}