Books by Jonathan Haidt and Complete Book Reviews
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. Penguin, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2489-6
In this expansion of their 2015 piece for the Atlantic, Lukianoff and Haidt argue that the urge to insulate oneself against offensive ideas has had deleterious consequences, making students less resilient, more prone to undesirable “emotional...
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Jonathan Haidt, Author . Basic $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-465-02801-6
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, lamented St. Paul, and this engrossing scientific interpretation of traditional lore backs him up with hard data. Citing Plato, Buddha and modern brain science, psychologist Haidt notes the mind is like...
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Jonathan Haidt. Pantheon, $28.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-307-37790-6
Amid America's tense culture wars, Haidt (The Happiness Hypothesis), a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, has produced this thought-provoking investigation into the innate morality of the human mind. Dismissing the notion that the...
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