Name: 【TED】Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives (Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives)
Uploaded: 2018-02-24T05:07:24.000Z
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Suppose that two American friends are traveling together in Italy.

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and when they finally come face to face with the statue,

is transfixed by the beauty of the perfect human form.

is transfixed by embarrassment, at staring at the thing there in the center.

which one of these two guys was more likely to have voted for George Bush,

because we all have the same political stereotypes.

And in this case, the stereotype corresponds to reality.

It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives

on a major personality trait called openness to experience.

People who are high in openness to experience

just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel.

People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

you can understand a lot of puzzles about human behavior.

You can understand why artists are so different from accountants.

You can actually predict what kinds of books they like to read,

what kinds of places they like to travel to,

Once you understand this trait, you can understand

why anybody would eat at Applebee's, but not anybody that you know.

This trait also tells us a lot about politics.

The main researcher of this trait, Robert McCrae says that,

"Open individuals have an affinity for liberal, progressive, left-wing political views" --

they like a society which is open and changing --

"whereas closed individuals prefer conservative, traditional, right-wing views."

This trait also tells us a lot about the kinds of groups people join.

So here's the description of a group I found on the Web.

What kinds of people would join a global community

welcoming people from every discipline and culture,

who seek a deeper understanding of the world,

and who hope to turn that understanding into a better future for us all?

Well, let's see now, if openness predicts who becomes liberal,

and openness predicts who becomes a TEDster,

then might we predict that most TEDsters are liberal?

I'm going to ask you to raise your hand, whether you are liberal, left of center --

on social issues, we're talking about, primarily --

or conservative, and I'll give a third option,

because I know there are a number of libertarians in the audience.

please raise your hand if you would say that you are liberal or left of center.

Please raise your hand high right now. OK.

Please raise your hand if you'd say you're libertarian.

And please raise your hand if you'd say you are right of center or conservative.

One, two, three, four, five -- about eight or 10.

Because if our goal is to understand the world,

to seek a deeper understanding of the world,

our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder.

Because when people all share values, when people all share morals,

they become a team, and once you engage the psychology of teams,

When the liberal team loses, as it did in 2004,

and as it almost did in 2000, we comfort ourselves.

We try to explain why half of America voted for the other team.

We think they must be blinded by religion, or by simple stupidity.

So, if you think that half of America votes Republican

then my message to you is that you're trapped in a moral matrix,

And by the matrix, I mean literally the matrix, like the movie "The Matrix."

You can either take the blue pill and stick to your comforting delusions,

learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.

I was going to ask you which one you picked, but no need.

You're all high in openness to experience, and besides,

it looks like it might even taste good, and you're all epicures.

Let's study some moral psychology and see where it takes us.

What is morality and where does it come from?

is the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth.

that kids come into the world already knowing so much

and programmed to make it really easy for them to learn certain things

The best definition of innateness I've ever seen --

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【TED】Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives (Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives)

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