Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.
Jonathan HaidtI 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.
Jonathan HaidtMost of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.
Jonathan Haidt