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Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion Quotes: We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.
         

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.


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