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Hating on Haidt

October 25th, 2008

The science guys at blogginghead.tv talk about Haidt’s work:

they’re reacting to this video:

I think they’re wrong that Haidt’s taxonomy is normatively slanted against conservatives.

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 12:57 pm and is filed under culture/norms.

One Response to “Hating on Haidt”

  1. swong Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    The jokes at the beginning aside, I thought Haidt’s breakdown of moral channels was pretty even-handed.

    Horgan and Johnson seemed to miss something in their critique, confusing the American left and right movements with universal liberal and conservative tendencies.

    I suspect that cultures developed in harsh conditions tend to be more conservative, while cultures developed in easy conditions tend to be more liberal. Like, it takes a certain amount of surplus wealth (material or other) to support tolerance, disorder, and experimentation, while being able to survive the next winter.