# Prof. Jonathan Haidt's moral foundations theory is highlighted

1 Faculty News October 31, 2013 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_034227.gif?itok=VeUysrKt)>

Excerpt from [Bill Moyers](http://billmoyers.com/2013/10/31/can-science-explain-tea-partiers-rage/) -- "[Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) is a pioneer in the psychology of morality and how that feeds into politics, and it really helps with something like this where you have strong emotional passions that are irreconcilable on the left and the right."

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