If you’re familiar with the so-called “heterodox” space, this week’s guest on The Unspeakable scarcely needs an introduction. In 2018, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, along with author and first amendment advocate Gregg Lukianoff, published The Coddling of The American Mind: How Good Intentions And Bad Ideas Are Setting Up A Generation For Failure.
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In the decade since Facebook went public, social media platforms have transformed American society. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about what went wrong and how social media could become less corrosive.
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In his recent talk at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Professor Jonathan Haidt explains three of the six causes of the emergence of a new moral culture of “safetyism,” and how these elements have contributed to the attitudes of current college students.
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Jonathan Haidt is the American social psychologist, author, and Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His main areas of study are the psychology of morality and moral emotions, and he is the author of more than 90 academic articles, and three books, including “The Happiness Hypothesis”. Jonathan Haidt was recently named one of the world’s “Top 50 Thinkers” and his latest work “The Coddling of the American Mind” is a New York Times best-seller which explains How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.
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Jonathan Haidt is the American social psychologist, author, and Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His main areas of study are the psychology of morality and moral emotions, and he is the author of more than 90 academic articles, and three books, including “The Happiness Hypothesis”. Jonathan Haidt was recently named one of the world’s “Top 50 Thinkers” and his latest work “The Coddling of the American Mind” is a New York Times best-seller which explains How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.
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With all the recent findings of Facebook’s psychological exploits of its users, its disastrous long term effects on society, combined with their unethical practice of selling your privacy and data to corporations and the nanny-state, how does anyone in their right mind voluntarily continue to use Facebook and social media?
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In this talk at the Manhattan Institute, Haidt talks about why he sees a big shift in university politics for 2018.
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‘Every situation is analyzed in terms of the bad people acting to preserve their power and privilege over the good people. This is not an education.’
Jonathan Haidt delivering the 2017 Wriston Lecture to the Manhattan Institute, Nov. 15:
Today’s identity politics . . . teaches the exact opposite of what we think a liberal arts education should be. When I was at Yale in the 1980s, I was given so many tools for understanding the world. By the time I graduated, I could think about things as a utilitarian or as a Kantian, as a Freudian or a behaviorist, as a computer scientist or as a humanist. I was given many lenses to apply to any given question or problem.
But what do we do now? Many students are given just one lens—power. Here’s your lens, kid. Look at everything through this lens. Everything is about power. Every situation is analyzed in terms of the bad people acting to preserve their power and privilege over the good people. This is not an education. This is induction into a cult. It’s a fundamentalist religion. It’s a paranoid worldview that separates people from each other and sends them down the road to alienation, anxiety and intellectual impotence. . . .
Let’s return to Jefferson’s vision: “For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error as long as reason is left free to combat it.” Well if Jefferson were to return today and tour our nation’s top universities, he would be shocked at the culture of fear, the tolerance of error, and the shackles placed on reason. . . .
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Universities are supposed to be dedicated to the exchange of ideas. But according to social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, campuses now skew so far to the left that they’ve become what he calls “political monocultures” in which voices that stray too far from liberal orthodoxy are shouted down. Paul Kennedy speaks with Professor Haidt – and with other scholars who have been thinking about the complex question of diversity on campus.
“We’ve created a hostile climate for people who don’t fit in intellectually. We’ve marginalized them. We’ve made it clear they don’t belong; they’re not welcome. And then the really smart ones among them don’t apply! And what we’re left with is a politically homogeneous field of inquiry, which therefore has problems studying anything that is politically valenced.” – Jonathan Haidt
Back in 2011, Jonathan Haidt was addressing a large gathering of professional psychologists about the perceived left-leaning bias of research in the social sciences. Before beginning his talk, he asked for a show of hands to determine the political composition of the crowd. There were about a thousand academics in the room. Fewer than ten people–perhaps only three or four–admitted to being Republican, or conservative. Maybe fifteen or twenty people claimed to be moderates. Approximately 80% of the crowd identified as supporters of the Democratic Party, or self-described liberals. The disparity has inspired much of his research ever since.
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From the Tom Woods Show, Jonathan Haidt (Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business) explains the philosophy of intolerance demonstrated by social justice warriors.
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