Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt
Haidt in 2012
Born	Jonathan David Haidt (1963-10-19) October 19, 1963 (age 53) New York City, New York, U.S.
Residence	New York City
Fields	Social psychology, moral psychology, positive psychology, cultural psychology
Institutions	University of Virginia (1995–2011), New York University—Stern School of Business (current)
Alma mater	Yale University (B.A.), University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.)
Thesis	Moral Judgment, Affect, and Culture, or, Is it Wrong to Eat Your Dog? (1992)
Doctoral advisor	Jonathan Baron, Alan Fiske
Website people.stern.nyu.edu/jhaidt/

Jonathan David Haidt (pronounced "height", born October 19, 1963) is a social psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. His academic specialization is the psychology of morality and the moral emotions. Haidt is the author of two books: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2006) and The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012), which became a New York Times bestseller. He was named one of the "top global thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine, and one of the "top world thinkers" by Prospect magazine.

Haidt was born in New York City and raised in Scarsdale, New York, to a liberal Jewish family. He earned a BA in philosophy from Yale University in 1985, and a PhD in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. He then studied cultural psychology at the University of Chicago as a post-doctoral fellow. His supervisors were Jonathan Baron and Alan Fiske (at the University of Pennsylvania) and cultural anthropologist Richard Shweder (University of Chicago). During his post-doctoral appointment, Haidt won a Fulbright fellowship to fund three months of research on morality in Orissa, India. In 1995, Haidt was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, where he worked until 2011, winning four awards for teaching, including a statewide award conferred by the Governor of Virginia.