tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969281918175291060.post4494999371831964318..comments2023-10-30T01:29:52.015-07:00Comments on Homeless Tom: Unselfishness is at the core of solving world problemsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13718601770472939313noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969281918175291060.post-1290777885117863102010-10-19T16:07:23.344-07:002010-10-19T16:07:23.344-07:00Thanks, N. And thanks to you for turning me on to...Thanks, N. And thanks to you for turning me on to Haidt in the first place.<br /><br />Haidt's Morals Foundation Questionaire highlights the five values clusters you mention. As it happens, I posted about this a year-and-a-half ago in a post titled "<a href="http://homelesstom.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-morals.html" rel="nofollow">My Morals</a>."<br /><br />Taking the Questionaire is fun and seeing how you're assessed is interesting.<br /><br />At face, I'm disappointed (if it's surprizingly true) that conservatives better understand liberals than vis versa, but (if it's true) maybe conservative are enabled to 'come around' to liberals' way of seeing things, which has seems unpromising in recent decades.<br /><br />ALSO, of some interest, a recent paper that Haidt co-authored, "<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1665934" rel="nofollow">Understanding Libertarian Morality</a>."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13718601770472939313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969281918175291060.post-74687128126247295242010-10-19T15:14:18.171-07:002010-10-19T15:14:18.171-07:00Thanks for calling the Haidt interview to my atten...Thanks for calling the Haidt interview to my attention. I downloaded the podcast this morning and listened to it during my walk this afternoon.<br /><br />So many interesting points surfaced during the interview, but I was especially intrigued by the differences Haidt's group has noticed between liberals and conservatives, and it was surprising to hear him say that libertarians and liberals show very similar values except that liberals evidence much more compassion than do libertarians.<br /><br />Finally, I was also surprised to hear Haidt say that, despite other studies suggesting that liberals are better able to take on different perspectives than are conservatives, his studies show that conservatives seem to be much better at understanding the liberal mindset, at least in a purely intellectual way, than liberals are at understanding the conservative mindset. He attributed this to the fact that conservative morality seems predominately shaped by five value clusters as opposed to the liberal emphasis on only two of them.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02549770321948541384noreply@blogger.com