Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.

I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than the sum of the individuals. And I've found that much of the wisest writing on human social nature comes from sociology and anthropology, not from my own field of social psychology.

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.