# Prof. Jonathan Haidt discusses morality and political polarization

1 Faculty News October 25, 2013 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033208.jpg?itok=60bPhpHy)>

Excerpt from [Mother Jones](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/inquiring-minds-jonathan-haidt-tea-party) -- "'On the right, it's not that they don't have compassion,' says [Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), 'but their morality is not based on compassion. Their morality is based much more on a sense of who's cheating, who's slacking.'”

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