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214: The Righteous Mind with Rylan Bowers
01:26 - Rylan’s Superpower: Helping People & Giving Back to Community
- “The rising tide lifts all boats.”
03:01 - The Righteous Mind / Making and Rationalizing Choices
- Jonathan Haidt
- Moral Psychology
- The Happiness Hypothesis (The Elephant Metaphor)
- Social Intuitionism
09:11 - An Example of a Moral Reaction (CW Beastiality)
10:26 - Humans as Individuals vs Humans as Species / Increasing Group-Level Cohesion
- Homo Duplex
- Transactional Leadership vs Transformational Leadership
- T-Groups: Resources for Interpersonal Skill Development
19:43 - Bridging the Gap Politically
- Thinking Empathatically
- “Addressing the Elephant”
- CivilPolitics.org: Educating the Public on Evidence-based methods for improving inter-group civility
- How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members To Give Up Their Robes
27:59 - Looking at Morality
- The WEIRD Culture (western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic)
- 5 Main Foundations
- Care vs Harm
- Fairness vs Reciprocity
- Loyalty vs Betrayal
- Authority vs Subversion
- Purity/Sanctity vs Degradation
- Liberty vs Oppression
38:55 - Morality Binds and Blinds / Group Cohesion
48:37 - Moving Forward / Fixing Divisiveness / Welcoming People w/ Different Viewpoints
- Yin and Yang
- APA Convention Keynote 2016 ft. Jonathan Haidt
- Mani (prophet) / (Manichaeism)
- Anti-Intellectualism
Reflections:
Damien: The Happiness Hypothesis (The Elephant Metaphor): Reflecting on the elephant.
Rylan: Finding a middle ground.
John: The value of conservative viewpoints vs liberal viewpoints.
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
More Resources:
- The Ezra Klein Show
- inter-group civility (Large potential list of remedies)
- Jonathan Haidt: The Coddling of the American Mind
- The Political Compass
- Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives (TED Talk)
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