BOOKISH: Sister spit, bony boys and good, old-fashioned teatime

This week in Bookish: Boys with strange bones, tea-drinking tours and the Sister Spit tour comes to Penn.

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BOOKISH: Sister spit, bony boys and good, old-fashioned teatime

POSTED: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 5:00 PM

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Saturday, April 21

How to shake hands with a Republican

You pull up to a red light behind some dude in a pickup truck flaunting a Santorum bumper sticker. A self-respecting liberal, you assume the guy is some religious homophobe who probably grew up in a small town with all the wrong information. When it comes to politics, it seems that part of being convinced in our own beliefs means assuming that everyone on the other side is ill-informed and dumb, and the only way to change them is to convince them that our side is better. According to psychologist Jonathan Haidt, this is the wrong approach. People are fundamentally intuitive, he argues, not rational. In trying to convince someone to vote a certain way or stand behind a particular cause, Haidt suggests you trash your go-to techniques of manipulation and try the old kindergarten advice of stepping into their shoes and trying to actually learn something from them. In his new book, the award-winning author and psychologist attempts to explain why morally good people are divided on political issues. As we become bombarded with all the political commentary leading up to November's election, Haidt's work offers a fresh perspective by turning to human psychology and morality in explaining political differences.

2 p.m., free, FLP Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., libwww.freelibrary.org

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