# Prof. Jonathan Haidt's new book, "The Righteous Mind," is highlighted

1 Faculty News April 8, 2012 ![New York Magazine logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_035440.gif?itok=tfYuio90)>

Excerpt from [New York Magazine](http://nymag.com/news/features/liberals-conservatives-2012-4/) -- "At the vanguard of this movement is [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), a moral psychologist whose best-selling new book, The Righteous Mind, collects his own experiments—testing biases, prejudices, and ­preferences—and the work of like-minded colleagues to unmask much of our political 'thinking' as moral instinct papered over, post facto, with ideological rationalization."

[Read more](http://nymag.com/news/features/liberals-conservatives-2012-4/)

Additional coverage appeared in [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/opinion/sunday/kristof-learning-to-respect-religion.html?_r=1) and [Charlotte Observer](http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/04/06/3155998/psychology-of-conflict-pits-liberals.html).