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Prof. Jonathan Haidt is profiled

Excerpt from This View of Life -- "Professor Haidt is one of the world’s most famous psychologists and leading public intellectuals—having been named, for example, a 'top world thinker' by Prospect magazine and a 'top global thinker' by Foreign Policy magazine. He is especially well-known for his work on the foundations of the moral emotions. In his 2012 book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, he goes further than he ever had previously in theorizing about the evolutionary origins of these emotions, and his interview proved to be a rich source of insights about the nature and development of his theoretical approach."

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Additional coverage appeared on Psychology Today.