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by Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D.

What Republicans, Democrats, and Everyone Else Need to Know About Morality

By Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D. on May 5, 2010 in Curious?

We think that our morals arrive from deep, deliberate, rational thought. We think it is primarily due to our religion and our parents. Science has discovered that there is much more to the story. And it is a damn interesting story... Read More

I feel it, so it must be true!

Submitted by Kevin Foytik on May 25, 2010 - 7:51pm.

This reminds me of a few other problems with our gut instincts when they are left unchecked by sound deliberation, including our definition of love as those visceral feelings of butterflies and light-headedness (and its contribution to rising marital dissatisfaction and high divorce rates) and our implicit belief that anger always implies moral justification (and associated policies of capital punishment and war). Here's to more thought before action (and more thought before thought).

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Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at George Mason University and author of Curious? Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life and co-editor of Designing Positive Psychology.

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