Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business. With a goal to help people understand and learn from each other, his research examines the intuitive foundations of morality and how morality varies across cultural and political divides. Haidt has co-founded organizations and collaborations that apply social and moral social psychology to help groups and systems work better, including HeterodoxAcademy.org, OpenMindPlatform.org, and EthicalSystems.org. He is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis and The Righteous Mind, and co-authored The Coddling of the American Mind. Haidt was named a top 100 global thinker by Foreign Policy magazine and in 2019 was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.