Today, I want to share with you the theory of the elephant and the rider and discuss how you can use this idea to become a more in tune manager with your team. On the other end of the spectrum ...

Our conscious and rational mind (i.e. the Rider) has only limited control over what our gut feelings, visceral reactions, emotions and intuitions beneath (the Elephant) compel us to do.

He uses the metaphor of an elephant and a rider to explain. The elephant, Dr. Haidt says, represents our gut feelings, visceral reactions, emotions, and intuitions. The rider is the elephant’s ...

Jonathan Haidt, a University of Virginia psychologist likens these two systems to an elephant and a rider; the elephant is our emotional side, and the rider is the rational side. You’d think ...

The rider and the elephant The social psychologist Jonathan ... insightful but underappreciated model is the moral foundations theory, which Haidt developed with colleagues. Consider a parent ...

Both the rider and elephant were recovering and neither had ... “I assumed where an elephant heart would be located based on human theory and a video clip I saw online.” ...