1. The Bright Future of Post-Partisan Social Psychology Jonathan Haidt, University of Virginia Talk given at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology San Antonio, TX, Jan. 27, 2011 You should be hearing the narration now….

4. Why is there something, rather than nothing?

5. Why is there something, rather than nothing?

8. The only non-kin-based Ultrasocial:

9. Our evolved trick: Ability to forge a team by circling around sacred objects & principles

10. Our evolved trick: Ability to forge a team by circling around sacred objects & principles

11. Our evolved trick: Ability to forge a team by circling around sacred objects & principles

12. Our evolved trick: Ability to forge a team by circling around sacred objects & principles

15. Moral Force Field

16. Heretics, Traitors, Apostates

39. Our self-Image:

40. Our Reality: We are a TMC 1) Taboos constrain our thinking 2) We have almost no moral/political diversity 3) We have created a hostile climate for non-liberal students

44. And it sped up in the Holocene! (2007) PNAS Note: I blanked out the dip on the right edge of the graph because that is a method artifact; the dating method does not work for selection in the last few thousand years

47. For more information: --See criticisms of this talk, and my responses, at: www.JonathanHaidt.com --Find resources for understanding the “other side” at www.CivilPolitics.org --Learn about your own morality by taking surveys at www.YourMorals.org