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

1 Faculty News December 29, 2013 ![TIME logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025660.jpg?itok=PFxttUnQ)>

Excerpt from [TIME](http://ideas.time.com/2013/12/29/duck-dynasty-mess-revealed-that-not-all-fundamentalists-live-in-the-bible-belt/) -- "[Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), a secular liberal, explores social-science findings that educated, upper-middle-class Americans are the most extreme moral outliers in the world. That is, the moral framework they impose on human thought and behavior is radically alien to the moral perceptions of the overwhelming majority of humanity. This doesn’t make them wrong, but it does make them extremely unusual."

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