The servant of the passions

Studies of everyday reasoning show that we usually use reason to search for evidence to support our initial judgment, which was made in milliseconds. But I do agree...that sometimes we can use controlled processes such as reasoning to override our initial intuitions. I just think this happens rarely, maybe in one or two percent of the hundreds of judgments we make each week.

-- a snippet from Jonathan Haidt's rich Moral psychology and the misunderstanding of religion. Haidt summarises a new synthesis in moral psychology in four principles:

1) Intuitive primacy but not dictatorship
2) Moral thinking is for social doing
3) Morality binds and builds
4) Morality is about more than harm and fairness