Derek Laney
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
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I and my fellow Penn students were weird in a second way too. In 2010, the cultural psychologists Joe Henrich, Steve Heine, and Ara Norenzayan published a profoundly important article titled “The Weirdest People in the World?”2 The authors ...more
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