Left wing individuals and right wing individuals are not fundamentally different, but different in predispositions. The most important finding in psychology is that everything you can measure is heritable. Whether you are on the right or left is not determined by your genes. But you're predisposed to find variety and diversity and challenge authority really exciting. And this is a more appropriate morality for diversity thand for so if we get to a very fundamental question, left wing individuals andright wing individuals aren't fundamentally different. Or not.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on morality, politics, disgust, how to maintain free speech on campus, the enriching effects of LSD, antiparsimonialism, and why economists set all the interesting variables to zero.
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