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In 2011, Jonathan Haidt, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, gave a talk at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in which he argued that American conservatives were …

I show how their writings in fact illustrate the four basic principles of moral psychology; they do not illustrate disinterested scientific inquiry. –This essay was given a “Sidney Award,” by David Brooks …

Jun 11, 2017 · Solving that problem has become a crusade for Haidt. In 2015 he co-founded Heterodox Academy to advocate for what its mission statement calls “viewpoint diversity.”

Jonathan Haidt is working the room. The slim, silver-haired professor is standing on top of a chair in a hotel suite packed with professors, students, reporters, donors, and assorted kibitzers,...

One of Haidt's enduring contributions is his focus on "civic empathy"|the capacity to understand opposing moral perspectives without surrendering one's own convictions. His work has inspired …

Aug 18, 2024 · Jonathan Haidt knows how to be a contrarian. In 2015, the NYU Stern social psychology professor founded Heterodox Academy, an organization that aims to bring viewpoint diversity to …

Oct 29, 2025 · As Heterodox Academy has argued since our founding in 2015, the truth-seeking function of universities does not work properly without the presence of diverse viewpoints. This is especially …

Heterodox Academy’s origin story could be summarized as “three guys and a blog.” Three scholars from three different disciplines authored academic articles in 2015 reflecting on the costs of orthodoxy in …

Jun 12, 2024 · While Professor Haidt generally came from the same side of the political spectrum, he argued that the ideological dominance had become so great – even extreme – that it was distorting …