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

1 Faculty News February 17, 2013 ![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://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/on-ethnocentrism/) -- "For instance, in his recent book, 'The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,' [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) argues that, far from being a way of holding our moral beliefs up to critical scrutiny, moral reasoning is generally something we use merely to convince others of long-held beliefs that we are unwilling to abandon."

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