Emotional, Motivated Reasoning About Jonathan Haidt

[image error]Jonathan Haidt has been one of the leaders when it comes to explaining the flaws in human reasoning–how our emotions guide us to a conclusion, and then we come up with all the reasons we can think of for why it is true.

So if you wanted to find an irony…well, you could hardly do better than people reasoning in a motivated, emotional way about Haidt's arguments!

Alas, humans being what they are, you do find such things. Look at some of the responses to my interview with Haidt at the Point of...