Jonathan Haidt
Social psychologist and author
Jonathan Haidt is an American social psychologist who studies morality and moral emotions. He is a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.
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American Born 1963 in New York City, United States
Influenced by Max Weber, Charles Darwin, David Hume
About Jonathan Haidt
Haidt earned his PhD in social psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. He spent sixteen years teaching at the University of Virginia, then moved to New York University's Stern School of Business in 2011, where he holds the Thomas Cooley Chair of Ethical Leadership. He co-developed Moral Foundations theory and co-founded Heterodox Academy, a group that promotes a range of viewpoints in universities. He also writes the After Babel Substack. His books include The Happiness Hypothesis, which sets ancient philosophies beside modern science, and The Righteous Mind, on moral politics. With Greg Lukianoff he wrote The Coddling of the American Mind, and in 2024 he published The Anxious Generation.