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On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us.

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People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

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When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

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Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.

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Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

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I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

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Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life.

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I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

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I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

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Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: October 19th, 1963

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