1, Our author, Jonathan Haidt, gave an address called "The Bright Future of Post-Partisan Social Psychology" at a big psychology conference in 2011. At his talk, he asked attendees to raise their hand if they identified as politically conservative. Out of over 1,000 attendees, approximately 80% identified as liberal, some identified as moderates or libertarians, and only a handful of the 1,000 were conservative (or were willing to say that they were conservative, given how outnumbered they were). Is it a problem that liberals are overrepresented and conservatives underrepresented in psychology, or do some professions just attract certain types of people? For instance, 58% of CEO’s identify as Republicans whereas only 18% say they’re Democrats (https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/04/02/the-politics-of-ceos/) …is that a problem? Why or why not? Be specific. (worth 20 points)
- Identify the sentence, passage, or excerpt from The Righteous Mind that you most agree with. Make sure you understand the excerpt in the broader context and provide it here, including a page number, and then fully describe the basis of your agreement with it.