Jonathan Haidt

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Jonathan Haidt (2012)

Jonathan Haidt (* 1963 in New York City ) is an American professor of psychology from the Stern School of Business and a specialist in morality and moral psychology . Among other things, he is the author of a bestseller .

Life and career

Haidt was born in New York City, but grew up in Scarsdale . He earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Yale University in 1985 and received a Doctor of Philosophy in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 . He then studied as a post-doctoral student and fellow cultural psychology at the University of Chicago , for three months he was in Orissa (India) on a Fulbright scholarship . He later worked as an associate professor at the University of Virginia .

Positions

Until 2009, Haidt saw himself as a “liberal partisan”. Nonetheless, in his book The Righteous Mind, he also took a critical look at liberal patterns of thought and argumentation.

In 2015, Haidt criticized a development at American universities in which an increasingly institutionalized form of censorship in the name of identity politics and political correctness was trying to "turn the campus into a safety zone where young adults are protected from ideas and words that make them uncomfortable" .

Awards

Publications ( selection )

Technical article

Books

  • Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well lived. Washington DC: American Psychological Association , 2003.
  • The happiness hypothesis: Finding modern truth in ancient wisdom. New York: Basic Books , 2006. German: Haidt, Jonathan. The Happiness Hypothesis - What Makes Us Really Happy; the quintessence of ancient knowledge and modern happiness research, Kirchzarten: VAK-Verl., 2014.
  • The righteous mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion. New York: Pantheon, 2012
  • The Coddling of the American Mind (with Greg Lukianoff). Penguin Press, New York City, 2018, ISBN 9780735224896

Web links
Commons : Jonathan Haidt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Ted Talks

Haidt gave several lectures at TED conferences ; in total, the videos of his performances were viewed more than 7 million times ( as of December 2019 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ righteousmind.com/about ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Biosketch on The Righteous Mind website . Retrieved October 24, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / righteousmind.com
  2. ↑ Jonathan Haidt - Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership , official website of New York University . Retrieved October 22, 2014.
  3. ↑ Wiliam Saletan: Why won't they listen? 'The Righteous Mind,' by Jonathan Haidt. , New York Times, March 23, 2012.
  4. ↑ Martin Kilian: Now comes the language police , Tages-Anzeiger, August 19, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Haidt, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist and best-selling author
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States