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The Power of the Open Mind: How Viewpoint Diversity Makes You Smarter and Stronger

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Join us for an online conversation with social psychologist, Dr. Jonathan Haidt.

Dr. Jonathan Haidt of New York University is author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion and The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. He is the co-founder of Heterodox Academy and OpenMind.

This online, interactive dialogue will be led by Dr. Jonathan Zimmerman of Penn Graduate School of Education.

The event is open to the public and will be held on Zoom Webinar. Registration is required.

Sponsored by the Red & Blue Exchange, an initiative of the SNF Paideia Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Made possible by the generosity of the Gamba Family and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

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