♥Sources of Moral Fiber♥

==== Binary Thinking ====

[On the evolutionary psychology of political thinking]
“The Righteous Mind” by Jon Haidt

[Relationship between threat and authoritarian thinking]

Cohrs, J. C., & Ibler, S. (2009). Authoritarianism, Threat, and Prejudice: An Analysis of
Mediation and Moderation. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 31(1), 81-94.

Hetherington, M., & Suhay, E. (2011). Authoritarianism, Threat, and Americans’ Support for the
War on Terror. American Journal of Political Science, 55(3), 546-560.

Lavine, H., Lodge, M., & Freitas, K. (2005). Threat, Authoritarianism, and Selective Exposure to
Information. Political Psychology, 26(2), 219-244.

Sales, S. M. (1973). Threat as a factor in authoritarianism: An analysis of archival data. Journal

of Personality and Social Psychology, 28(1), 44-57.

“The Authoritarian Dynamic” by Karen Stenner (widely regarded as the best book on this topic)

[Hormonal components of binary thinking]

Kavaliers, M., Choleris, E. (2017). Out-group threat responses, in-group bias, and nonapeptide
involvement are conserved across vertebrates. The American Naturalist, 189(4), 453-458.

[Evidence for the “asteroids”]

Climate change:
http://asteroidsclub.org/climate-change-an-asteroid-detection-deflection-guide/
Economic inequality:
http://asteroidsclub.org/rising-inequality-an-asteroid-detection-deflection-guide/
Social program collapse:
http://asteroidsclub.org/entitlement-spending-an-asteroid-detection-deflection-guide/
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/v70n3p111.html
Family breakdown:
http://asteroidsclub.org/family-breakdown-an-asteroid-detection-deflection-guide/
“The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and Jon Haidt
The dangers of artificial intelligence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdVC4e6EV4 (video by Robert Miles)
 ==== Hive Switch ====

[Development of the metaphor]

“The Happiness Hypothesis” and “The Righteous Mind” by Jon Haidt

[Literature on social reward]

Brent, L. J., Chang, S. W., Gariépy, J., & Platt, M. L. (2013). The neuroethology of friendship.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1316(1), 1-17.

Carelli, R.M., & Wondolowski J. (2003). Selective encoding of cocaine versus natural rewards by
nucleus accumbens neurons is not related to chronic drug exposure. Journal of Neuroscience, 23(35),
11214-11223.

Ebitz, R., & Platt, M. (2015). Neuronal activity in primate dorsal anterior cingulate cortex signals
task conflict and predicts adjustments in pupil-linked arousal. Neuron, 85(3), 628-640.

MacLean, E. L. et al. (2014). The evolution of self-control. PNAS, 111(20), E2140-E2148.

Platt, M. L., & Glimcher, P. W. (1999). Neural correlates of decision variables in parietal cortex.
Nature, 400(6741), 233-238.

Stalnaker, T. A., Calhoon, G.G., Ogawa, M., Roesch, M.R., & Schoenbaum, G. (2010). Neural
correlates of stimulus-response and response-outcome associations in dorsolateral versus
dorsomedial striatum. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 4, 12.

Watson, K., & Platt, M. (2012). Social Signals in Primate Orbitofrontal Cortex. Current Biology,
22(23), 2268-2273.
Watson, K., & Platt, M. (2008). Neuroethology of reward and decision making. Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363(1511), 3825-3835.
 ==== Elephant and Rider ====

[The Emotional Dog and its Rational Tail]

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~maccoun/LP_Haidt.pdf

[Development of the metaphor]

“The Happiness Hypothesis” and “The Righteous Mind” by Jon Haidt

[More on Dual Process Theory]

“Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman
 ==== Concept Creep ====

[Words aren’t violence and why it’s bad to equate the two]
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/07/why-its-a-bad-idea-to-tell-students-words-
are-violence/533970/

[Origins of concept creep]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2690955

[More about concept creep]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/concept-creep/477939/

[Microaggressions are real, but they are rarely actually aggressive, ethologically speaking]
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/microaggressions-matter/406090/

[MORAL CONTAGION]
http://www.pnas.org/content/114/28/7313.abstract

[The Oatmeal’s comic]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

[Neuroimaging study cited in Oatmeal comic]

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39589

[About confirmation bias and the backfire effect]

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/

[Disagreement about the existence of the backfire effect]

http://djflynn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/elusive-backfire-effect-wood-porter.pdf

[Social Intuitionism]
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~maccoun/LP_Haidt.pdf

[More on why we need to chill on -isms and -phobias]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/a-columbia-professors-critique-of-campus-
politics/532335/