Jonathan Haidt

66.5k citations
134 papers · 43.4k · 29 hit papers · h-index 77

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Papers in

    • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment 66
    • Cultural Differences and Values 34
    • Emotions and Moral Behavior 24
    • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction 7
    • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion 6

Jonathan Haidt

132 papers receiving 39.2k citations

Jonathan Haidt's Hit Papers

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness 2025 · 44 citations
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Jonathan Haidt
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  • Cognitive Neuroscience 21.2k
  • Social Psychology 20.5k
  • Information Systems and Management 5.2k
  • Applied Psychology 2.3k
  • Sociology and Political Science 18.4k
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All Works

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The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment.
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20015286
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Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations.
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20093037
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Mapping the moral domain.
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20111895
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The New Synthesis in Moral Psychology
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20071587
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When Morality Opposes Justice: Conservatives Have Moral Intuitions that Liberals may not Recognize
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20071545
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Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion
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20031356
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Individual differences in sensitivity to disgust: A scale sampling seven domains of disgust elicitors
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19941346
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How (and where) does moral judgment work?
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20021319
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Social Functions of Emotions at Four Levels of Analysis
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19991310
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What (and Why) is Positive Psychology?
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20051187
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Intuitive ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues
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20041166
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Moral Foundations Theory
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20131143
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The moral emotions.
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2003907
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Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment
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2008895
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Witnessing excellence in action: the ‘other-praising’ emotions of elevation, gratitude, and admiration
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2009890
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Affect, culture, and morality, or is it wrong to eat your dog?
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1993875
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Affect, culture, and morality, or is it wrong to eat your dog?
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About Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and Management and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, having authored 134 papers that have together received 43.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (66 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (39 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (34 papers), Emotions and Moral Behavior (24 papers), Ethics in Business and Education (12 papers), Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (7 papers), Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (6 papers) and Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (21.2k citations), Social Psychology (20.5k citations), Information Systems and Management (5.2k citations), Applied Psychology (2.3k citations) and Sociology and Political Science (18.4k citations). Jonathan Haidt has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Jesse Graham, Dacher J. Keltner, Brian A. Nosek, Craig Joseph, Paul N. Rozin, Ravi Iyer, Shelly L. Gable, Spassena P. Koleva, Peter H. Ditto and Joshua D. Greene. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Cognition & Emotion, Review of General Psychology, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Emotion.

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