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by Jonathan Haidt, 2012
Who uses, recommends or left The Righteous Mind, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind
His standing 'My Favorite Movies, TV Shows, Books, Podcasts, Music, Video games' page (created 2018-12-15, last modified 2025-06-06); date is the page's own modified date. (the page prints only created: 2018-12-15 and modified: 2025-06-06 for a list updated continuously, so it is undated)
2019-08-20·guzey.com ↗
Brilliant insights into human nature. Moral reasoning, inventing victims, emotional reactions, the elephant (emotions) and its rider (explanations). Intuition reacts then logic confabulates a reason. Survival of the fittest applied to groups. Understanding religion and tradition. Great from start to finish.
Rated 9/10 on his public book-notes list.
2023-05-28·sive.rs ↗
This is the only one I’m not crazy about. My academic BS detector got tripped a few times while reading it, and it turns out that there are a number of better measurements emerging in moral psychology.
Manson’s post reviewing 114 books he had read in recent years, one paragraph each; the book links are Amazon affiliate links (tag=entsblo-20).
2021-03-01·markmanson.net ↗
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