Right or left, we’re all stressed.

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In our increasingly fractured and viciously partisan world, we spend more time condemning people on “the other side” for their deeply-held beliefs than we do rising together to tackle the grave challenges facing our world. Worse, those challenges aren’t likely to disappear anytime soon—and lasting peace, prosperity and wellbeing will forever be out of reach until we can find a way to stop loathing each other.

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Imagine a world where instead of being torn apart – as families, friends and nations – we understood that our moral value differences are both unavoidable and necessary. Once we do this, we can harness those differences to create more civilised public debate, better public policy and legislation.

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The Moral Stress of Nations leverages the best insights that behavioural genetics, cognitive behaviour theory, social psychology and moral foundations theory have to offer—exploring how our genetic makeup drives our political orientation, how we are born into two broad moral tribes, and how society needs the perspective of both tribes to survive and thrive.

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This book is for anyone who is fed up with news media, and for anyone who feels stressed by the decisions of their government. It also provides the insights politicians need to craft better legislation that improves outcomes for all citizens, not just those of their own tribe.  Most importantly, it shows how honouring our moral value differences will help us to create a kinder, more morally generous world for future generations to enjoy.