# Professor Jonathan Haidt's research on political diversity and social psychology is highlighted

1 Faculty News April 23, 2016 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/opinion/sunday/the-reactionary-mind.html?_r=0) -- "Over the last year, America’s professional intelligentsia has been placed under the microscope in several interesting ways. First, a group of prominent social psychologists released a paper quantifying and criticizing their field’s overwhelming left-wing tilt. Then [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), one of the paper’s co-authors, highlighted research showing that the entire American academy has become more left-wing since the 1990s."

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