# Professor Jonathan Haidt's work on morality is highlighted

1 Faculty News January 26, 2017 ![Bloomberg View logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloombergview_0.jpg?itok=47DlvcFA)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg View](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-26/in-defense-of-trump-s-day-of-patriotic-devotion) -- "As social psychologist [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) has argued for years, doing things in groups is really hard, and the larger the group, the harder it gets. Moral values like group loyalty -- an instinctive group loyalty, not some dry intellectual thing carefully reasoned from first principles and self-interest -- make it possible for us to do this very difficult thing."

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