Jonathan Haidt Books

"For over a generation, shocking cases of censorship at America’s colleges and universities have taught students the wrong lessons about living in a free society. Drawing on a decade of experience battling for freedom of speech on campus, First Amendment lawyer Greg Lukianoff reveals how higher education fails to teach students to become critical thinkers: by stifling open debate, our campuses are supercharging ideological divisions, promoting groupthink, and encouraging an unscholarly certainty about complex issues. Lukianoff walks readers through the life of a modern-day college student, from orientation to the end of freshman year. Through this lens, he describes startling violations of free speech rights: a student in Indiana punished for publicly reading a book, a student in Georgia expelled for a pro-environment collage he posted on Facebook, students at Yale banned from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on a T shirt, and students across the country corralled into tiny “free speech zones” when they wanted to express their views. But Lukianoff goes further, demonstrating how this culture of censorship is bleeding into the larger society. As he explores public controversies involving Juan Williams, Rush Limbaugh, Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, Larry Summers—even Dave Barry and Jon Stewart—Lukianoff paints a stark picture of our ability as a nation to discuss important issues rationally. Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate illuminates how intolerance for dissent and debate on today’s campus threatens the freedom of every citizen and makes us all just a little bit dumber"--amazon.com

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The #1 bestselling author of The Anxious Generation and acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike—a “landmark contribution to humanity’s understanding of itself” (The New York Times Book Review). Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns. In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you’re ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.

Three bad ideas. The untruth of fragility : what doesn't kill you makes you weaker ; The untruth of emotional reasoning : always trust your feelings ; The untruth of us versus them : life is a battle between good people and evil people -- Bad ideas in action. Intimidation and violence ; Witch hunts -- How did we get here? The polarization cycle ; Anxiety and depression ; Paranoid parenting ; The decline of play ; The bureaucracy of safetyism ; The quest for justice -- Wising up. Wiser kids ; Wiser universities ; Wiser societies.

Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas such as 'fairness' and 'freedom' mean such different things to different people? And why do political views which conflict with our own often seem illogical? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt reveals how the conflict, self-righteousness and hypocrisy that can make it so hard for us to get along are actually the natural expression of our moral minds. Drawing on twenty-five years of groundbreaking research, Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from intuition, and why we evolved to be this way. Morality binds and blinds, but this book will help you to see and understand your friends, enemies and fellow citizens as never before. 'If you want to know why you hold your moral beliefs and why many people disagree with you, read this book.' Simon Baron-Cohen, author of The Essential Difference 'A truly seminal book.' David Goodhart, Prospect 'A tour de force - brave, brilliant, and eloquent. It will challenge the way you think about liberals and conservatives, atheism and religion, good and evil.' Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works 'Compelling . . . a fluid combination of erudition and entertainment.' Ian Birrell, Observer 'Lucid and thought-provoking . . . deserves to be widely read.' Jenni Russell, Sunday Times

The bestselling author of The Righteous Mind draws on philosophical wisdom and scientific research to show how the meaningful life is closer than you think The Happiness Hypothesis is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world's civilizations--to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives and illuminate the causes of human flourishing. Award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the author of The Righteous Mind, shows how a deeper understanding of the world's philosophical wisdom and its enduring maxims--like "do unto others as you would have others do unto you," or "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger"--can enrich and even transform our lives.

This is a surreal time for freedom of speech. While the legal protections of the First Amendment remain strong, the culture is obsessed with punishing individuals for allegedly offensive utterances. And academia - already an institution in which free speech is in decline - has grown still more intolerant, with high-profile "disinvitation" efforts against well-known speakers and demands for professors to provide "trigger warnings" in class. In this Broadside, Greg Lukianoff argues that the threats to free speech go well beyond political correctness or liberal groupthink. As global populations increasingly expect not just physical comfort but also intellectual comfort, threats to freedom of speech are only going to become more intense. To fight back, we must understand this trend and see how students and average citizens alike are increasingly demanding freedom from speech.

"A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-needed antidote from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind ... [Includes] hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works, along with hundreds of new examples showing the left and the right both working to silence their enemies ...Offers concrete steps toward reclaiming a free speech culture, with materials specifically tailored for parents, teachers, business leaders, and everyone who uses social media"

Dlaczego nasi przyw�dcy polityczni nie potrafią ze sobą wsp�łpracować w obliczu zagrożeń i narastających problem�w? Dlaczego ludzie tak chętnie przypisują bliźnim najgorsze motywy? W książce Prawy umysł psycholog społeczny Jonathan Haidt analizuje genezę podział�w między ludźmi i wskazuje drogę ku wzajemnemu zrozumieniu. Punktem wyjścia są dla niego intuicje moralne ? niemal natychmiastowe odczucia dotyczące innych ludzi oraz ich zachowań. Intuicje te wydają nam się oczywistymi prawdami, wzbudzając w nas niewzruszoną pewność, że ci, kt�rzy są innego zdania, nie mają racji. Haidt pokazuje, że owe intuicje r�żnią się w zależności od kultury, między innymi kultury lewicy i prawicy politycznej. Autor łączy wyniki własnych badań z odkryciami antropolog�w, historyk�w i innych psycholog�w, aby sporządzić czytelną mapę kr�lestwa moralności. Wyjaśnia też, dlaczego konserwatyści posługują się tą mapą bardziej sprawnie niż liberałowie. Haidt przygląda się genezie moralności, obalając pogląd, że ewolucja uczyniła z nas istoty na wskroś egoistyczne. Nie twierdzi jednak, że jesteśmy urodzonymi altruistami, lecz wysuwa bardziej subtelną tezę ? uważa, że ludzie są z natury istotami grupowymi. To nasza skłonność do łączenia się w grupy ? wyjaśnia autor ? jest źr�dłem naszych największych radości, naszych podział�w religijnych i naszych sympatii politycznych. W znakomitym ostatnim rozdziale poświęconym ideologii i cywilizacji Haidt pokazuje, w czym każda ze stron ma rację, i wyjaśnia, dlaczego potrzebujemy idei liberał�w, konserwatyst�w i libertarian, aby osiągnąć sukces jako społeczeństwo.

Drei technische Megatrends bestimmten die Nullerjahre: das iPhone, hyperviralisierte Social-Media-Plattformen und die Selfie-Kultur. Das Ergebnis: Eine ganze Generation von Kindern und Jugendlichen verwandte mehrere Stunden am Tag darauf, um durch die Beiträge von Influencer:innen und Jugendlichen zu scrollen, statt mit anderen Menschen zu spielen, zu sprechen oder Blickkontakt aufzunehmen. Die Mitglieder der Generation Z wurden damit zu Testpersonen für das Aufwachsen in einer durch die Sozialen Medien radikal umgestalteten Umgebung. Was sind die Folgen dieses Experiments, und wie können wir ihnen begegnen? Diesen Fragen widmet sich Jonathan Haidt in «Generation Angst». Sein Buch richtet sich an alle, die verstehen wollen, wie die schnellste und allumfassendste Neuverdrahtung menschlicher Beziehungen es uns allen erschwert, klar zu denken, uns zu konzentrieren, uns um andere zu kümmern und enge Bindungen einzugehen. Es ist auch ein Buch darüber, wie wir ein menschliches Leben für unsere Kinder und für die Menschheit zurückgewinnen können.