Major Articles
This page has links to all of my academic writings. To see my popular essays (e.g., The Atlantic and New York Times), click here.
1. Books
1) Haidt, J. (2006). The happiness hypothesis: Finding modern truth in ancient wisdom. New York : Basic Books.
2) Haidt, J. (2012). The righteous mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion. New York: Pantheon.
3) Lukianoff, G., & Haidt, J. (2018). The coddling of the American mind: How good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure. New York: Penguin Press. (Four weeks on New York Times bestseller list). See TheCoddling.com.
4) Haidt, J. (2024). The anxious generation: How the great rewiring of childhood Is causing an epidemic of mental illness. New York: Penguin Press. (Twenty weeks on New York Times bestseller list). Penguin Press.
5) Haidt, J. (Due out January, 2025). Book under contract: Life After Babel: Adapting to a World We May Never Share Again. Penguin Press. See LifeAfterBabel.com.
6) Haidt, J. (Due out in 2026). Book under contract: Three Stories about Capitalism: The Moral Psychology of Economic Life. Pantheon. See StoriesAboutCapitalism.com.
Edited and Excerpted Books
1) Keyes, C. L. M., & Haidt, J. (Eds.) (2003). Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well lived. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
2) Haidt, J. (2016). Can’t We All Disagree More Constructively? [Kindle Single, excerpt from The Righteous Mind] New York: Vintage.
3) Reeves, R. V., Haidt, J., & Cicirelli, D. (2018). All minus one: John Stuart Mill’s ideas on free speech, illustrated. New York: Heterodox Academy. [This is a beautifully illustrated and condensed version of Ch. 2 of On Liberty]
4) Haidt, J. (2018). Why do they vote that way? [Kindle Single, excerpt from The Righteous Mind] New York: Vintage.
2. Articles
Google Scholar calculates my “h” index as 91 and shows 97,155 citations of my work
** indicates the most important articles
–This is the published version of my dissertation. It examined a debate between Eliott Turiel and Richard Shweder, on whether morality really varied by culture. Using harmless yet offensive stories (such as a family that eats its pet dog, after the dog was killed by a car), I found evidence that strongly supported Shweder: morality did indeed vary by culture. Unexpectedly, cultural differences across social classes within each country were larger than differences across nations (U.S. vs. Brazil). This research showed me the importance of culture and of emotion for understanding moral judgment. If you would like to see my original dissertation, which gives more detail about methods and more tables of results, you can view it here (ungated).
2) Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. (1993). Disgust. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland (Eds.) Handbook of emotions. New York: Guilford Press.
–This was our first major statement on disgust, particularly on the expansion of disgust from “core” through “animal-reminder”, “interpersonal” and “moral” disgust. But there’s no need to read this article; it is superceded by the 2 more recent editions, which are #17 and #48 below. Rozin has been writing on disgust since the 1980s.
3) Shweder, R., & Haidt, J. (1993). The future of moral psychology: Truth, intuition, and the pluralist way. Psychological Science, 4, 360-365. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
–This theoretical article is an early statement of moral intuitionism; It was written mostly by Shweder, while I was working with him as a post-doctoral researcher. It shows the profound influence of Shweder’s ideas upon my later thinking.
4) Imada, S., Yamada, Y., & Haidt, J. (1993). The differences of Ken’o (disgust) experiences for Japanese and American students. Studies in the Humanities and Sciences, Hiroshima-Shudo University , 34, 155-173. Request article
5) Haidt, J., McCauley, C., & Rozin, P. (1994). Individual differences in sensitivity to disgust: A scale sampling seven domains of disgust elicitors. Personality and Individual Differences, 16, 701-713. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
–This article introduced The Disgust Scale, the most widely used measure of individual differences in disgust sensitivity. For more on the emotion of disgust and its measurement, click here.
6) Haidt, J., & Koller, S. (1994). Julgamento moral nos Estados Unidos e no Brasil: Uma visao intuicionista. (English title: “Moral judgment in the United States and Brazil : An intuitionist view.”) Psicologia: Reflexao e Critica, 7, 79-94. ( Brazil ). Request article
7) Haidt, J. & Rodin, J. (1995). Control and efficacy: An integrative review. Report to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. [see #16 for a short, published version]
8) Haidt, J. & Baron, J. (1996). Social roles and the moral judgement of acts and omissions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 201-218. View article: Gated : Request article
–These experiments show that people judge acts of commission to be morally worse than equivalent acts of omission, but the difference goes away when the person being judged was in a role-relationship to the victim (e.g., friend, or boss) that required him/her to look out for the interests of the other person.
9) Haidt, J., Rozin, P., McCauley, C., & Imada, S. (1997). Body, psyche, and culture: The relationship of disgust to morality. Psychology and Developing Societies, 9, 107-131. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
10) Rozin, P., Haidt, J., McCauley, C., & Imada, S. (1997). Disgust: Preadaptation and the cultural evolution of a food-based emotion. In H. MacBeth (Ed.) Food preferences and taste. Providence: Berghahn Books, 65-82.
11) Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. R. (1999). Disgust: The body and soul emotion. In T. Dalgleish & M. Power (Eds.). Handbook of cognition and emotion. Chichester, UK: Wiley. 429-445. Request article
12) Rozin, P., Lowery, L., Imada, S., & Haidt, J. (1999) The moral-emotion triad hypothesis: A mapping between three moral emotions (contempt, anger, disgust) and three moral ethics (community, autonomy, divinity). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 574-586. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
13) ** Haidt, J. & Keltner, D. (1999). Culture and emotion: Multiple methods find new faces and a gradient of recognition. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 225-266. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
–Keltner and I used multiple methods, including asking subjects to tell us stories about what might have happened to make the person in the photograph make a particular face. We found strong support for Paul Ekman’s claims about universality. But we did not find a clear distinction between his set of universal emotional expressions, and a variety of additional expressions we examined. Rather, we found a “gradient” of universality, with some expressions eliciting very high agreement across cultures and methods, others elicited less agreement. This is one of the best pieces of empirical work I ever did. I thought it was going to resolve the debate over whether or not facial expressions of emotion are understood universally. But because it was published in a second level journal, nobody cites it.
14) Rozin, P., Haidt, J., McCauley, C., Dunlop, L., & Ashmore, M . (1999). Individual differences in disgust sensitivity: Comparisons and evaluations of paper-and-pencil versus behavioral measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 33, 330-351. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
15) Keltner, D., & Haidt, J. (1999). The social functions of emotions at four levels of analysis. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 505-522. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
16) Haidt, J. & Rodin, J. (1999) Control and efficacy as interdisciplinary bridges. Review of General Psychology, 3, 317-337. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
17) ** Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. R. (2000). Disgust. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland (Eds.) Handbook of emotions, 2nd edition, (pp.637-653). New York: Guilford Press. Request article [but see #48 for most recent edition]
18) Shweder, R. A., & Haidt, J. (2000). The cultural psychology of the emotions: Ancient and new. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland (Ed.), Handbook of emotions, 2nd edition, (pp. 397-414). New York: Guilford. Request article
19) Haidt, J. (2000). The positive emotion of elevation. Prevention and Treatment, 3. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
–This was my first publication on moral elevation, but see #26 for a much fuller statement, and see #63 for empirical evidence.
2001
20) Keltner, D., & Haidt, J. (2001). Social functions of emotions. In T. Mayne & G. A. Bonanno (Eds.), Emotions: Current issues and future directions. New York: Guilford Press. (pp. 192-213). View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
21) Haidt, J., & Hersh, M. (2001). Sexual morality: The cultures and emotions of conservatives and liberals. Journal of Applied Social Psychology,31, 191-221. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
–This was the undergraduate honors thesis of Matthew Hersh. It was my first venture into political psychology. We found that conservatives moralized sexual issues more thatn liberals, and that they were more likely to become “morally dumbfounded” while trying to explain themselves. But the differences were largest on homosexuality — an issue in the culture war — and they were much smaller for issues of consensual incest.
22) ** Haidt, J . (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review. 108, 814-834. View article: Journal webpage, Ungated version, Request article
–This is the most important article I’ve ever written. It was my effort to bring together the newest developments in many fields in the 1990s, and link them up to older ideas (from David Hume and Robert Zajonc) about the primacy of affect. I formulated the “Social Intuitionist Model” as an alternative to the rationalist models that had dominated moral psychology in the 1980s and 1990s. The model says that most of the action in moral psychology is in our intuitions — our automatic evaluative responses. People do indeed reason, but that reasoning is done primarily to prepare for social interaction, not to search for truth. We are just not very good at thinking open-mindedly about moral issues, so rationalist models end up being poor descriptions of actual moral psychology.
2002
23) Haidt, J. (2002). “Dialogue between my head and my heart:” Affective influences on moral judgment. Psychological Inquiry, 13, 54-56. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
24) Greene, J., & Haidt, J. (2002). How (and where) does moral judgment work? Trends in Cognitive Science, 6, 517-523. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
–This article, written mostly by Joshua Greene, was my introduction to social-cognitive neuroscience. We reviewed all extant studies in which people had been presented with moral violations or dilemmas while in an fMRI scanner. We identified the brain regions most frequently mentioned, but we cautioned that “there is no specifically moral part of the brain. Every brain region discussed in this article has also been implicated in non-moral processes.”
2003
25) Haidt, J. (2003). The moral emotions. In R. J. Davidson, K. R. Scherer, & H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of affective sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pp. 852-870). View article at: Journal webapge, Request article
–From the abstract: “Four families of moral emotions are discussed: the other-condemning family (contempt, anger, and disgust), the self-conscious family (shame, embarrassment, and guilt), the other-suffering family (compassion), and the other-praising family (gratitude and elevation). For each emotion, the elicitors and action tendencies that make it a moral emotion are discussed.”
26) ** Haidt, J. (2003). Elevation and the positive psychology of morality. In C. L. M. Keyes & J. Haidt (Eds.) Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well-lived. Washington DC : American Psychological Association. (pp. 275-289). View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
–This was my first major statement on the emotion of moral elevation — a warm, uplifting feeling we get when we witness acts of moral beauty. The article offers an overview of a set of positive moral emotions that had not yet been studied empirically. For empirical evidence about elevation, see Pub #63.
27) Keyes, C. L. M., & Haidt, J. (2003). Positive Psychology: The study of ‘That Which Makes Life Worthwhile.’ In C. L. M. Keyes & J. Haidt (Eds.) Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well-lived. Washington DC : American Psychological Association. (pp. 3-12). View article at: Ungated version
–This is the introduction to the volume I co-edited, Flourishing. It gives a short overview of positive psychology. For a more recent overview, see #36
28) **Keltner, D., & Haidt, J . (2003). Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 297-314. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
–Keltner and I were surprised to find that there was essentially no empirical work in psychology on the emotion of awe. There was almost no theoretical work either. We scoured other fields for some ideas and hypotheses about this powerful but rare emotion. We present a prototype approach to awe, and we suggest that two appraisals are central to the most prototypical cases: perceived vastness, and need for accommodation (i.e., the inability to assimilate an experience into current mental structures).
29) Haidt, J., Rosenberg, E., & Hom, H . (2003). Differentiating diversities: Moral diversity is not like other kinds. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 1-36. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
–We question the widespread celbration of diversity, noting that from a social-psychological point of view, diversity ought to cause many problems, particularly divisiveness and internal conflict. We argue that moral diversity is the real problem, and that discussion of diversity should distinguish among kinds of diversity. Three studies of attitudes and desires for interaction among college students confirm that moral diversity reduces desires for interaction more than does demographic diversity, and that both kinds of diversity are valued more in a classroom than in other social settings.This research was the honors thesis of Evan Rosenberg
30) Haidt, J. (2003). The emotional dog does learn new tricks: A reply to Pizarro and Bloom (2003). Psychological Review, 110, 197-198. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
2004
31) Haidt, J. & Keltner, D . (2004). Appreciation of beauty and excellence. In C. Peterson and M. E. P. Seligman (Eds.) Character strengths and virtues. Washington DC: American Psychological Association Press. pp. 537-551. Request article
32) Haidt, J., & Algoe, S. (2004). Moral amplification and the emotions that attach us to saints and demons. In J. Greenberg, S. L. Koole, & Tom Pyszczynski (Eds.) Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology. New York: Guilford. View article at: Ungated version
33) Haidt, J. (2004). The emotional dog gets mistaken for a possum. Review of General Psychology, 8, 283-290. Request article
34) Mick, D. G., Broniarczyk , S. M., & Haidt, J. (2004). Choose, Choose, Choose, Choose, Choose, Choose, Choose: Emerging and Prospective Research on the Deleterious Effects of Living in Consumer Hyperchoice. Journal of Business Ethics, 207-211. Request article
35) Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: How Innately Prepared Intuitions Generate Culturally Variable Virtues. Daedalus, pp. 55-66, Special issue on human nature. Request article–This was my first statement of “moral foundations theory”, an attempt to specify the best candidates for being the evolved and innate psychological systems upon which cultures construct an enormous variety of virtues and institutions. For a fuller statement, see pub #41 and pub #62. For more on moral foundations theory see www.moralfoundations.org
2005
36) Gable, S., & Haidt, J. (2005). Positive Psychology. Review of General Psychology, 9, 1089-2680. [Introduction to special issue on positive psychology] View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
37) Wheatley, T., & Haidt, J. (2005). Hypnotically induced disgust makes moral judgments more severe. Psychological Science, 16, 780-784. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
38) Haidt, J. (2005). Invisible fences of the moral domain. (Commentary on Sunstein, ‘Moral Heuristics’). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, pp. 552-553. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
2006
39) Haidt, J. et al. (2006). What is the role of heuristics in making law? In C. Engel and G. Gigerenzer, eds. Heuristics and the Law. Dahlem Workshop Report 94. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
40) Keltner, D., Haidt, J., & Shiota, L. (2006). Social Functionalism and the Evolution of Emotions. In M. Schaller, D. Kenrick, & J. Simpson (Eds.) Evolution and Social Psychology pp. 115-142. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
2007
41) **Haidt, J., & Graham, J. (2007). When morality opposes justice: Conservatives have moral intuitions that liberals may not recognize. Social Justice Research, 20, 98-116. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
–This is an accessible introduction to moral foundations theory. It was given the Morton Deutsch Award, for the best article published in Social Justice Research in 2007
42) Haidt, J., & Kesebir, S. (2007). In the forest of value: Why moral intuitions are different from other kinds. In H. Plessner, C. Betsch, & T. Betsch (eds.) A new look on intuition in judgment and decision making. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
43) Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2007). The moral mind: How 5 sets of innate moral intuitions guide the development of many culture-specific virtues, and perhaps even modules. In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, and S. Stich (Eds.) The Innate Mind, Vol. 3. New York: Oxford, pp. 367-391. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
–This is our most complete statement of the cognitive science of morality. It examines various notions of “modularity,” concluding that for moral and cultural psychology, the best one is the version proposed by Dan Sperber in which “learning modules” are innate, and they generate dozens or hundreds of culture-specific modules during childhood. It is also our most complete statement on virtue ethics, thanks to the expertise of Craig Joseph.
44) ** Haidt, J. (2007). The new synthesis in moral psychology. Science, 316, 998-1002. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
–I was invited to summarize the state of the art in moral psychology for Science. I had to say it all in less than 2 pages. This exercise helped me to identify the 4 principles of moral psychology that now guide my approach to so much of moral and political psychology: 1) Intuitive primacy (but not dictatorship), 2) Moral thinking is for social doing, 3) Morality binds and builds, 4) There is more to morality than harm and fairness.
45) Haidt, J. (2007) Response (to a letter by David Barash), Science, 317, 596-597. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
46) **Haidt, J. (2007) Moral psychology and the misunderstanding of religion. Published on www.edge.org, 9/9/07. View article at: Ungated version
–I was so frustrated by the moralism of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, who claimed to be simply presenting the scientific facts on religion. I differ from them in believing that religion is an evolutionary adaptation, not a byproduct or cultural parasite. (I follow David Sloan Wilson on this point.) I show how their writings in fact illustrate the four basic principles of moral psychology; they do not illustrate disinterested scientific inquiry.
–This essay was given a “Sidney Award,” by David Brooks (New York Times) as one of the 10 best essays of 2007
–This essay was reprinted in: J. Schloss & M. Murray (eds.), (2009). The believing primate: Scientific, philosophical, and theological reflections on the origin of religion. New York: Oxford. pp. 278-291. This version is better for printing than the original Edge essay– it is better formatted, and includes references.
47) Haidt, J. (2007). Doing science as if groups existed. Published on www.edge.org, 12/7/07. View article at: Ungated version
–This essay is my response to critiques/comments of article #46, by David Sloan Wilson, Michael Shermer, Sam Harris, PZ Myers, and Marc Hauser. Their comments can be seen above my response.
2008
48) Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. R. (2008). Disgust. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones & L. F. Barrett (Eds.), Handbook of emotions, 3rd ed. (pp. 757-776). New York: Guilford Press. Request article
–This is our most complete review of the psychology of disgust
49) **Haidt, J., & Bjorklund, F. (2008). Social intuitionists answer six questions about moral psychology. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral Psychology, Volume 2: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (pp. 181-217). Request article
–This is the most comprehensive summary of the social intuitionist model. It is the best work to read for those interested in moral philosophy.
50) Haidt, J., & Bjorklund, F. (2008). Social intuitionists reason, as a normal part of conversation. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral Psychology, Volume 2: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Request article
51) Shweder, R. A., Haidt, J., Horton, R., & Joseph, C. (2008). The cultural psychology of the emotions: Ancient and renewed. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones & L. F. Barrett (Eds.), Handbook of emotions, 3rd ed. (pp. 409-427). New York: Guilford Press. Request article
52) **Haidt, J. (2008). Morality. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 65-72. Request article
–This article gives a medium-length overview of moral psychology. (Longer than #44, but shorter than #77). It places the history of moral psychology within 2 competing narratives about modernity, a liberal one about liberation, and a conservative one about decline and loss. It argues that the field of moral psychology, which is composed almost entirely of liberals, needs to pay more attention to conservative ideas and concerns.
53) Silvers, J., & Haidt, J. (2008). Moral Elevation Can Induce Lactation. Emotion, 8, 291-295. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
–This is one of the two most bizarre (and, I think interesting) empirical studies I’ve ever done (along with #37). When lactating women watched an elevating/inspiring videotape, they were more likely to leak breast milk, and more likely to pick up and suckle their infants, compared to women who watched an amusing video. We believe the mediating mechanism was the release of the hormone oxytocin.
54) **Schnall, S., Haidt, J., Clore, G., & Jordan, A. (2008). Disgust as embodied moral judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1096-1109. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version–This article offers the clearest empirical evidence to date that extraneous feelings of disgust (induced via sitting at a dirty desk, watching a disgusting video, or smelling fart spray) makes moral judgment more severe.
55) ** Haidt, J. (2008) What makes people vote Republican? Published on www.edge.org, 9/9/08. View article at: Ungated version
56) Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. R. (2008). Disgust: The body and soul emotion in the 21st century. In D. McKay & O. Olatunji (eds.), Disgust and its disorders. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. P. 9-29. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
57) Olatunji, B. O., Haidt, J., McKay, D., David, B., (2008). Core, animal reminder, and contamination disgust: Three kinds of disgust with distinct personality, behavioral, physiological, and clinical correlates. Journal of Research in Personality, 42. 1243-1259. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
58) Algoe, S., & Haidt, J., & Gable, S. (2008). Beyond reciprocity: Gratitude and relationships in everyday life. Emotion, 8, 425-429. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
59) **Haidt, J., Seder, P., & Kesebir, S. (2008). Hive Psychology, Happiness, and Public Policy. Journal of Legal Studies, 37, S133-S156. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
Reprinted in: : E. A. Posner & C. Sunstein (eds.) (2010) Law and Happiness. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press. pp. 133-156.
–This was my first full statement about “hive psychology”, which is the idea that human beings are, like bees, products of multi-level selection. But we accomplish our hivishness in a very different way than bees: We have a variety of psychological mechanisms that make us love to lose ourselves in larger groups. Among the most important of these mechanisms is synchronous movement, which has been used in rituals and by militaries for thousands of years to bond groups together.
60) Graham, J., Haidt, J., & Rimm-Kaufman, S. E. (2008). Ideology and intuition in moral education. European Journal of Developmental Science, 2, 269-286. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
2009
61) Haidt, J. (2009). Obama’s moral majority. Prospect, 155 (Feb 2009). View article at: Ungated version
–Some advice for Obama and the Democrats, from the perspective of Moral Foundations Theory, on the eve of Obama’s inauguration. He didn’t take it.
62) **Haidt, J., & Graham, J. (2009). Planet of the Durkheimians, Where Community, Authority, and Sacredness are Foundations of Morality. In J. Jost, A. C. Kay, & H. Thorisdottir (Eds.), Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification. Request article [Here is a link to the manuscript, which may be easier to read than the scanned version of the final article.]
–This is the most sociological article I’ve ever written, and its one I’m most proud of. When I first read Durkheim, in graduate school, I had an experience of enlightenment — my first view of societies as emergent organisms. This article applies the ideas of Durkheim, Tonnies, and Weber to Moral Foundations Theory.
63) **Algoe, S., Haidt, J., (2009). Witnessing Excellence in Action: The other-praising emotions of elevation, admiration, and gratitude. Journal of Positive Psychology, 4, 105-127. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
–This is the major empirical article on the emotion of moral elevation.
64) **Graham, J., Haidt, J., & Nosek, B. (2009). Liberals and conservatives use different sets of moral foundations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 1029-1046. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
–This is the first major empirical article testing Moral Foundations Theory. In four studies we found that liberals relied primarily on harm/care and Fairness/reciprocity, whereas conservatives relied on all five foundations. We found this difference even when we coded sermons given in liberal versus conservative churches.
65) Haidt, J., & Morris, J. P. (2009). Finding the self in self-transcendent emotions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 7687-7688. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
66) Sherman, G., Haidt, J., & Coan, J. (2009). Viewing cute images increases behavioral carefulness. Emotion, 9, 282-286. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
67) Oveis, C., Cohen, A. B., Gruber, J., Shiota, M. N., Haidt, J., & Keltner, D. (2009). Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia is associated with tonic positive emotionality. Emotion, 265-270. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
68) Olatunji, B. O., Moretz, M. W., Bjorklund, F., de Jong, P., Haidt, J., Hursti, T. J., Imada, S., Koller, S., Mancini, F., McKay, D., Page, A. C., & Schienle, A. (2009). Confirming the Three-Factor Structure of the Disgust Scale-Revised in Eight Countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40, 234-255. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
69) Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & Fincher, K. (2009). From oral to moral. Science, 323, 1179-1180. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
70) Haidt, J., Graham, J., & Joseph, C. (2009). Above and below left-right: Ideological narratives and moral foundations. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 110-119. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
71) Joseph, C., Graham, J., & Haidt, J. (2009). The end of equipotentiality: A moral foundations approach to ideology-attitude links and cognitive complexity. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 172-176. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
72) Glenn, A., Koleva, S., Iyer, R., Graham, J., Haidt, J. (2009). Are all types of morality compromised in psychopathy?. Journal of Personality Disorders, 23, 384-398. View article at: Ungated version
73) Haidt, J., & Seder, P. (2009) Admiration and Awe. Entry for the Oxford Companion to Affective Science. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp.4-5. Request article
74) Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. R. (2009). Disgust. Entry for the Oxford Companion to Affective Science. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp.121-122. Request article
75) Iyer, R., Graham, J., Koleva, S., Ditto, P., & Haidt, J (2010). Beyond Identity Politics: Moral Psychology and the 2008 Democratic Primary. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 10, 293-306. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
76) Haidt, J. (2010). Wired to be inspired. In D. Keltner, J. Marsh, & J. A. Smith (Eds.), The compassionate instinct. New York: Norton.
–This article was originally published in Greater Good magazine, Spring/summer 2005. View article at: Ungated version
77) **Haidt, J., & Kesebir, S. (2010). Morality. In S. Fiske, & D. Gilbert (Eds.) Handbook of Social Psychology, 5th Edition. Request article
–This is my absolute most-complete statement on what morality is, where it comes from, how it works, and why people disagree about it. It is in essence a precis of my next book, The Righteous Mind. It’s long, and it’s written for an audience of social psychologists, but it should be accessible to non-specialists.
78) Haidt, J. (2010). Finding meaning in vital engagement and good hives. (Commentary on Susan Wolf’s 2007 Tanner Lectures at Princeton). In: Meaning in life, and why it matters. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 92-101. Request article
79) Haidt, J. (2010). Moral psychology must not be based on faith and hope. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 182-184. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
–This is a response to a critique of my work by Darcia Narvaez
80) Graham, J. & Haidt, J. (2010). Beyond Beliefs: Religion Binds Individuals into Moral Communities. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14, 140-150. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
81) Vianello, M., Galliani, E. M., & Haidt, J. (2010). Elevation at work: The organizational effects of
82) Lobue, V., Nishida, T., Chiong, C., Deloache, J., & Haidt, J. (2011). When getting something good is bad: Even 3-year-olds react to inequality. Social Development, 20, 154-170. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article
–This paper offers the first evidence that 3-year-olds have an intuitive and negative response to unfair divisions. Previous research has focused primarily on on children’s conceptual understanding of fairness, which emerges only years after the intuitive response is in place.
83) Sherman, G., & Haidt, J. (2011). Cuteness and disgust: The humanizing and dehumanizing effects of emotion. Emotion Review, 3, 245-251. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
84) Graham, J., & Haidt, J. (2011). Sacred values and evil adversaries: A Moral Foundations approach. In P. Shaver & M. Mikulincer (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Morality: Exploring the Causes of Good and Evil. New York: APA Books. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
85) Graham, J., Nosek, B. A., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., Koleva, S., & Ditto, P. H. (2011). Mapping the moral domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 366-385. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
86) Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2011). How Moral Foundations Theory Succeeded in Building on Sand: A Response to Suhler and Churchland. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, <br2117-2122. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
87) Koleva, S. P., Graham, J., Ditto, P., Iyer, R., & Haidt, J. (2012). Tracing the threads: how five moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes. Journal of Research in Personality, 46(2), 184-194. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
88) Sherman, G. D., Haidt, J., Clore, G. L. (2012). The faintest speck of dirt: Disgust enhances impurity detection. Psychological Science, 23, p. 1506-1514. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
89) Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D., Iyer, R., & Haidt, J. (2012). Disgust Sensitivity, Political Conservatism, and Voting. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 537-544. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
90) Koleva, S., & Haidt, J., (2012). Let’s use Einstein’s safety razor, not Occam’s Swiss Army knife or Occam’s chainsaw. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 175-178. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
91) Graham, J., Nosek, B., & Haidt, J. (2012). The Moral Stereotypes of Liberals and Conservatives: Exaggeration of Differences across the Political Spectrum. PLoS ONE 7(12): e50092. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
92) Englander, Morris, & Haidt (2012). Neural basis of moral elevation demonstrated through inter-subject synchronization of cortical activity during free-viewing. PloS one, 7. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
93) Haidt, J. (2013) Of freedom and fairness. Democracy Journal, 28, Spring 2013. View article at: Ungated version
94) Sherman, G. D., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., & Coan, J. A. (2013). Individual differences in the physical embodiment of care: Prosocially oriented women respond to cuteness by becoming more physically careful. Emotion, 13, 151-158. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
95) Diessner, R., Iyer, R., Smith. M.M., & Haidt, J. (2013). Who engage with moral beauty? Journal of Moral Education, 42, 139-163. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
96) Rozin, P., & Haidt, J. (2013) The domains of disgust and their origins: Contrasting biological and cultural evolutionary accounts. Trends in Cognitive Science. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
97) Haidt, J. (2013). Moral psychology and the law: How intuitions drive reasoning, judgment, and the search for evidence. University of Alabama Law Review, 64, 867-903. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
98) ** Graham, J., Haidt, J., Koleva, S., Motyl, M., Iyer, R., Wojcik, S., & Ditto, P. H. (2013). Moral foundations theory: The pragmatic validity of moral pluralism. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 47, p. 55-130. Link to manuscript here. And final pub here.
99) Haidt, Jonathan. (2013). Moral psychology for the 21st century. Journal of Moral Education, 42, p. 281-297. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
100) Lai, C. K., Haidt, J., & Nosek, B. A. (2013). Moral elevation reduces prejudice against gay men. Cognition and Emotion. View article at: Journal webpage, Ungated version
2014
101) Kluver, Jesse, Frazier, Rebecca, & Haidt, Jonathan. (2014). Behavioral ethics for Homo economicus, Homo heuristicus, and Homo duplex. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 123, 150-158. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
102) Olatunji, B. O., Ebesutani, C., Haidt, J., & Sawchuk, C. N. (2014). Specificity of disgust domains in the prediction of contamination anxiety and avoidance: A multimodal examination. Behavior Therapy, 45, 469-481. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
103) Lai, C. K., Marini, M., Lehr, S. A., Cerruti, C., Shin, J.-E. L., Joy-Gaba, J. A., Ho, A. K., Teachman, B. A., Wojcik, S. P., Koleva, S. P., Frazier, R. S., Heiphetz, L., Chen, E. E., Turner, R. N., Haidt, J., Kesebir, S., Hawkins, C. B., Schaefer, H. S., Rubichi, S., Sartori, G., Dial, C., Sriram, N., Banaji, M. R., & Nosek, B. A. (2014). Reducing Implicit Racial Preferences: I. A Comparative Investigation of 17 Interventions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
2015
104) Talhelm, T., Haidt, J., Oishi, S., Zhang, X., Miao, F. F., & Chen, S. (2015). Liberals think more analytically (more “WEIRD”) than conservatives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
105) Schnall, S., Haidt, J., Clore, G., & Jordan, A. H. (2015). Landy and Goodwin confirmed most of our findings then drew the wrong conclusions. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 537-538. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
106) ** Duarte, J. L., Crawford, J. T., Stern, S., Haidt, J., Jussim, L., & Tetlock, P. E. (2015). Ideological diversity will improve psychological science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, e130. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
107) Crawford, J. T., Duarte, J. L., Haidt, J., Jussim, L., Stern, C., & Tetlock, P. E. (2015). It may be harder than we thought, but political diversity will (still) improve the social psychological science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38. View article at: Ungated version
108) Frimer, J., Tell, C. E., & Haidt, J. (2015). Liberals condemn sacrilege too: The harmless desecration of Cerro Torre. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 878-886. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
109) Randazzo, A., & Haidt, J. (2015) The moral narratives of economists. Econ Journal Watch (12), 49-57. View article at: Ungated version
110) Haidt, J. (2015). Desperate data analysis by a desperate job candidate. In R. J. Sternberg and S. T. Fiske (eds). Ethical Challenges in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 87-88. Request article [to come]
111) **Aber, Danziger, Doar, Ellwood, Gueron, Haidt, Haskins, Holzer, Hymowitz, Mead, Mincy, Reeves, Waldfogel (2015). Opportunity, responsibility, and security: A consensus plan for reducing poverty and restoring the American dream. A joint report from the American Enterprise Institute and The Brookings Institution. View article at: Ungated version
—I moderated the bipartisan group and wrote most of the introduction
2016
112) Haidt, J., & Jussim, L. (2016) APS should prioritize viewpoint diversity. APS Observer, 29, p. 5-7. View article at: Ungated version
113) Haidt, J. (2016) Why concepts creep to the left. Psychological Inquiry, 27, 40-45. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
2017
114) Haidt, J. (2017). The unwisest idea on campus. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12, 176-177. View article at: Journal webapge, Request article [to come]
115) **Haidt, J., & Trevino, L. (2017). Make business ethics a cumulative science. Nature Human Behavior, 1. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
116) Yaden, D. B., Haidt, J., Hood, R. W., Vago, D., Newberg, A. B. (2017). The varieties of self-transcendent experience. Review of General Psychology, 21, 143-160. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
117) Graham, J., Haidt, J., Motyl, M., Meindl, P., Iskiwitch, C., & Mooijman, M. (2018). Moral foundations theory: On the advantages of moral pluralism over moral monism. In K. Gray & J. Graham (Eds.), The Atlas of Moral Psychology: Mapping Good and Evil in the Mind. New York: Guilford. View article at: Ungated version
118) Haidt, J., & Rozin, P. (2017). How cultural psychology can help us see “divinity” in a secular world. In J. Cassaniti and U. Menon (Eds.), Universalism without Uniformity: Explorations of Mind in Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 31-44. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
2018
119) Trevino, L. K., Haidt, J., & Filabi, A. E. (2018). Regulating for ethical culture. Behavioral Science and Policy, 3, p. 56-70. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
120) Stenner, K., & Haidt, J. (2018). Authoritarianism is not a momentary madness, but an eternal dynamic within liberal democracies. In C. R. Sunstein (Ed.), Can it happen here? Authoritarianism in America. New York: William Morrow. Request article [to come]
2019
121) Waytz, A., Iyer, R., Young, L., Haidt, J., & Graham, J. (2019). Ideological Differences in the Expanse of the Moral Circle. Nature Communications, 10, p. 1-12. View article at: Ungated version
2020
122) Twenge, J., Blake, A. B., Haidt, J., & Campbell, W. K. (2020). Commentary: Screens, teens, and psychological well-being: Evidence from three time-use-diary studies. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 181. View article at: Ungated version
123) Haidt, J. (2020). A guilty verdict. Nature, 578, 226-227. [Nature forum debate on social media and mental health, paired with Nicholas Allen]. View article at: Ungated version
124) Twenge, J. Haidt, J., Joiner, T., & Campbell, W. K. (2020). Digital media is linked to teen well-being. Nature Human Behavior. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
125) Haidt, J. (2020). Tribalism, forbidden baserates, and the telos of social science. Psychological Inquiry, 31, p. 53-56. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
2021
126) Twenge, J., Haidt, J., Blake, A. B., McAllister, C., Lemon, H., & Le Roy, A. (2021). Worldwide increases in adolescent loneliness. Journal of Adolescence. View article at: Journal webpage, Request article [to come]
2022
128) Twenge, J. M., Haidt, J., Lozano, J. & Cummins, K. M. (2022). Specification curve analysis shows that social media use is linked to poor mental health, especially among girls. Acta Psychologica, 224. View article at: Journal webpage.
129) Haidt, J. (2022). Three emotional reasons for reading. In Greywoode, J. (Ed.). Why we read: Seventy writers on non-fiction. London: Penguin Books.
130) Haidt, J. (2022). Forward, for “Connections Between Ethics and Moral Psychology. Studies Around the Work of Jonathan Haidt.” Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso, 2022, No 19, p. 13-14. Link to special issue on my work as it has influenced Spanish speaking scholars: Conexiones entre ética y psicología moral. Estudios en torno a la obra de Jonathan Haidt. View forward at: Journal webpage.
2023
131) Atari, M., Haidt, J., Graham, J., Koleva, S., Stevens, S. T., & Dehghani, M. (2023). Morality beyond the WEIRD: How the nomological network of morality varies across cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. View article at: Journal webpage.
Articles in press (accepted for publication)
[None at the moment]
3. Working Papers (Under Review or Revision)
Greenberg, D. M., Holt, R., Allison, C., Newman, R., Boadman, T., Haidt, J., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2020). The moral foundations of people with autism are not very different from those of neurotypical controls.
Twenge, J., & Haidt, J. (2021) Worldwide increases in adolescent loneliness and links to technology use.