Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

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

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

To understand most important ideas in psychology, you need to understand how the mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. We assume that there is one person in each body, but in some ways we are each more like a committee whose members have been thrown together to do a job, but who often find themselves working at cross purposes.

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