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

1 Faculty News April 30, 2015 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/04/30/pope-francis-has-given-the-climate-movement-just-what-it-needed-faith/) -- "One of the messages of [Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt)’s book The Righteous Mind is that the left and the right tend to have different moral 'foundations,' by which he means that they get emotional and intense about different kinds of moral situations. In Haidt’s analysis, it isn’t that the left (or environmental left) lacks emotionality, but rather that conservatives sense a broader suite of moral foundations related to loyalty, respect for authority, and disgust — as well as the more typically liberal moral foundations related to fairness and protecting the vulnerable from harm."

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