Author
Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt is an American social psychologist who studies morality and the moral emotions. For many years he taught at the University of Virginia.
Books in Livria
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Why do we know what's right and still act otherwise? Psychologist Jonathan Haidt takes ideas that sages of the East and the West have repeated for centuries and tests them with experiments. The book shows how to come…
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Why did teenagers in several countries at once become more anxious and less happy in the early 2010s? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt links it to the five years in which childhood moved from the playground into the…
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Why do smart, kind people clash so fiercely over politics and religion? Jonathan Haidt shows that morality rests on intuition, not logic, and that it reaches far beyond care and fairness. You will see why the other…