Episode Summary Social psychologist Dr. Ronnie Janoff-Bulman joins Chris Malone to explain how two distinct moral systems—proscriptive (“do no harm”) and prescriptive (“help others”)—shape liberal and conservative worldviews. Drawing on her book The Two Moralities, she describes how approach-and-avoidance motivations give rise to social-order and social-justice moralities, why both are essential for a healthy democracy, and how understanding them can bridge America’s political divide.

Guest Dr. Ronnie Janoff-Bulman — Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Shattered Assumptions and The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide. Recipient of the Morton Deutsch Award for Justice Re ...