# Key takeaways from Professor Jonathan Haidt's moral foundations theory are highlighted

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Excerpt from [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/opinion/coronavirus-trump-partisanship.html) -- "The opposition among conservative Republicans to the lockdown — designed to protect American from contact with the coronavirus — presents an interesting corollary to the moral foundations theory developed by [Jonathan Haidt](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) of N.Y.U. and Jesse Graham of the University of Utah. In essence, the theory posits that conservatives are more preoccupied with notions of purity and disgust than liberals."

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