The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and

In “The Righteous Mind,” Haidt argues that people’s moral judgments are influenced by a combination of intuitive, emotional, and rational processes. Drawing on research from psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience, he identifies six fundamental moral principles—care/harm, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, sanctity/degradation, and liberty/oppression—that are common to all human societies but are weighted differently across cultures and individuals.