I’d like to revisit something we talked about on my old blog: the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s theory of moral foundations, and how it informs the way we interpret events and act.

When it comes to vaccine hesitancy, one particularly insightful but underappreciated model is the moral foundations theory, which Haidt developed with colleagues. Consider a parent who emphasizes ...

Moral Foundations theory posits that morality is largely intuitive and underlaid by modular foundations. The original set of five foundations proposed by researchers includes Care/Harm ...