# Prof. Jonathan Haidt's research on liberals and conservatives is featured

1 Faculty News August 9, 2014 ![New York Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031743.jpg?itok=0h5FlsRq)>

Excerpt from [The New York Post](http://nypost.com/2014/08/09/why-liberals-cant-get-away-with-calling-all-conservatives-crazy/) -- "An experiment by psychologist [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) (sometimes called 'an ideological Turing test') asked liberals and conservatives to put themselves in the other guy’s socks for the duration of a test and ask them: How would your ideological opponent answer? Conservatives were far better at liberals at this game, though that should have been easy to guess."

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