Jonathan Haidt — The Psychology of Self-Righteousness
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Do We Need Extremists?
Left and right are similar in some ways, but one of the clearest differences between left and right psychologically is that the left is generally universalist. Liberals on our survey actually say they value people in the world at large more than people in their own country. So liberals are so universalist, they often don't really pay much attention to their own groups. As my mother said about my grandfather as a labor organizer, he loved humanity so much that he didn't really have much time to care for his family.
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