# An op-ed by Prof. Jonathan Haidt on how democrats can get moral psychology to work in their favor

1 Faculty News February 20, 2012 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/how-to-get-the-rich-to-share-the-marbles/) -- "If the Democrats really want to get moral psychology working for them, I suggest that they focus less on distributive fairness — which is about whether everyone got what they deserved — and more on procedural fairness — which is about whether honest, open and impartial procedures were used to decide who got what."

[Read more](http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/how-to-get-the-rich-to-share-the-marbles/)

Additional coverage appeared in [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/02/inequality-and-fairness).