“Morality gives us genocide, war, politics… and also heroism, altruism, sainthood (Image: Martin Adolfsson for Â鶹´«Ã½)
has delved into the tribal world of US politics, where each group is obsessed with its rightness. But as the moral psychologist tells Alison George, self-righteousness turns out to be an essential part of being human
You’ve called Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich a very good moral psychologist. What do you mean?
Gingrich is very skilled at manipulating moral sentiments. He understands visceral morality. In the 1990s, he came up with a list of words Republicans should use when talking about…
