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Psychologist Jonathan Haidt on the science of religion, evolution, and why we seek self-transcendence. Haidt is the author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, which succeeds his excellent The Happiness Hypothesis. 

Also see Haidt’s Edge presentation on the subject.

3-15-2012
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