Jonathan Haidt is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. He is currently writing The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, to be published next year, and is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. He studies the emotional basis of morality and political ideology, and is on a crusade to help people understand the moral motivations of their enemies. He was awarded the Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award in 2004 and the Templeton Prize in Positive Psychology in 2001. His essays have appeared in various publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.