# Professor Jonathan Haidt's moral foundations theory is referenced

1 Faculty News November 14, 2017 ![Pacific Standard logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/logo.png.jpg?itok=V036tDMR)>

Excerpt from [Pacific Standard](https://psmag.com/social-justice/conservatives-highly-religious-more-likely-to-endorse-rape-myths) -- "This timely new research, published in the journal Violence Against Women, is based on [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt)'s well-known moral foundations theory. Haidt argues that liberals and conservatives resonate to different dimensions of morality, and this divergence drives our increasingly polarized politics."

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