[Unedited] Jonathan Haidt with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2017

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

“When it comes to moral judgments, we think we are scientists discovering the truth, but actually we are lawyers arguing for positions we arrived at by other means.” The surprising psychology behind morality is at the heart of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s research. He explains “liberal” and “conservative” not narrowly or necessarily as political affiliations, but as personality types — ways of moving through the world. His self-described “conservative-hating, religion-hating, secular liberal instincts” have been challenged by his own studies. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Jonathan Haidt — The Psychology of Self-Righteousness.” Find onbeing.org.

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0:00.0	Poetry has become as important to me as any reading and contemplating I do.
0:04.8	Which is why I'm always eager to remind you about our ongoing initiative,
0:08.6	the Poetry Radial Project. It's a place where you can discover the poetry that so many of our guests
0:14.5	fold into their lives. And you can also delve deep into reading and listening to the many wonderful
0:20.1	poets we've had on the show. Check out one of my favorites that Naomi Shehab-Nai read for us,
0:25.7	Kindness. You'll also find Mary Oliver, David White, Lailey Long Soldier, and many, many more.
0:32.4	All that at onbearing.org slash poetry.
0:36.7	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:41.2	spiritual foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding
0:46.9	principle and animating force for our lives. A powerful love that helps us live in sacred
0:51.9	relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:59.1	This is On Being's Unheard Cut. I'm Christa Tippett. You're listening to my unedited
1:03.6	conversation with social psychologist Jonathan Height. Listen to our produced show with him wherever
1:09.1	you find your podcasts, and as always, at onbearing.org. So I'm going to take the liberty of
1:16.6	beginning just as everyone gets settled. So given the tonight's first of all welcome.
1:28.0	Happy that you're here. Thank you Paul. Appreciate that. My name is Yona Shemtov. I'm the executive
1:33.8	director of Encounter, and we're so pleased that all of you could join us here this evening.
1:38.7	A few housekeeping items. Given the tonight's conversation is going to be recorded,
1:43.1	I'm going to ask that everyone please do something that you are not used to doing, which is
1:47.5	powering off your cell phones, not on silent. But if you could please shut them down,
1:53.6	that would be great. It affects the sound quality of the interview. You know that buzzing that happens.
2:00.4	And considering your electronics will be powered down. There won't be any photography,
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