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There is now a great deal of evidence that religions do in fact help groups to cohere, solve free rider problems, and win the competition for group-level survival.

Those who see the world as safe, and who are motivated by exploring and trying new experiences, tend to support more liberal views.

“left-wingers are more motivated by creativity, curiosity, and diversity of experience, whereas right-wingers are more motivated by self-control, norm attainment, and rule-following.”

Dans ses études, Tajfel démontre deux choses : premièrement, que les humains sont sociaux, et deuxièmement qu’ils sont antisociaux. Ils sont sociaux parce qu’ils aiment les membres de leur propre groupe. Antisociaux parce qu’ils n’aiment pas ceux des autres groupes.

Jonathan Haidt, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, is a leading expert in exploring group thought in politics. Haidt, in his book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, built on Tetlock’s work, connecting it with the need for diversity. “If you put individuals together in the right way,

The social intuitionist model starts with Hume’s model and makes it more social. Moral reasoning is part of our lifelong struggle to win friends and influence people. That’s why I say that “intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.” You’ll misunderstand moral reasoning if you think about it as something people do by themselves in order to

You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn’t change his judgment.

Yale sociologist Philip Gorski recently wrote of the “failure of the social sciences to develop a satisfactory theory of ethical life . . . that could explain why humans are constantly judging and evaluating.” He notes that there are two main theories put forward by social scientists to explain morality without recourse to religion. First there are