#1 in Psychology
The Righteous Mind
- 493
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #10
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Our view
“The Righteous Mind” uses social psychology to explain why decent people land on opposite sides of politics and religion. Its core claim, that moral intuition comes first and reasoning arrives afterwards to justify it, leaves some readers more tolerant of views they do not share. Some find the constant trips to the endnotes laborious, and some feel the author never fully sheds a liberal bias.
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About the book
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion is a 2012 social psychology book by Jonathan Haidt, in which the author describes human morality as it relates to politics and religion.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.7 across 238 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 62% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Psychology average of 7.9. That is how 8.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 7 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 8.7 | 231 | 97% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Righteous Mind?
It has 493 pages — longer than 76% of the ranked books in Psychology.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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