Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He obtained his PhD in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and taught at the University of Virginia for sixteen years. His research focuses on moral and political psychology, as described in his book The Righteous Mind. His latest book, The Anxious Generation, is a direct continuation of the themes explored in The Coddling of the American Mind (written with Greg Lukianoff). He writes the After Babel Substack.
Books in order of publication:
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom – 2006
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion – 2012
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure – 2018
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness – 2024
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