. >> jonathan haidt has taken the core of that speech which you can see at our website billmoyers.com, and into an important and timely book, "the righteous mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion," to be published in march. his ideas are controversial but they make you think. haidt says, for example, that liberals misunderstand conservatives more than the other way around, and that while conservatives see self-sufficiency as a profound moral value for individuals, liberals are more focused on a public code of care and equity. jonathan haidt has made his reputation as a social psychologist at the university of virginia, where he and his colleagues explore reason and intuition, why people disagree so passionately and how the moral mind works. they post their research on the website yourmorals.org. welcome. >> thank you, bill. >> what do you mean righteous mind? >> anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations. so, in analyzing any social situation you have to understand moral