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Jun 2020
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Jonathan Haidt On The Social Psychology ...

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Before the pandemic outbreak, we had been living through a period of increasing polarisation. But now that Covid-19 crisis is revealing the full extent of our shared vulnerability and common humanity, is there an opportunity for us to come together to heal some of those divides?

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist who studies how our moral and political intuitions are formed.

This conversation was broadcast online on the 5th May 2020. Discover more at: https://www.thersa.org/events/bridges-to-the-future

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