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AI Language Model Rivals Expert Ethicist in Perceived Moral Expertise

Dillion, D., Mondal, D., Tandon, N. et al. AI language model rivals expert ethicist in perceived moral expertise. Sci Rep 15, 4084 (2025).

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Kurt GrayFebruary 7, 2025Artificial Intelligence, Morality
Morality in our Mind and Across Cultures and Politics

Gray, K. & Pratt, S. Morality in our mind and across cultures and politics. (2024). Annual Review of Psychology, 76.

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Kurt GrayOctober 22, 2024Morality
People believe political opponents accept blatant moral wrongs, fueling partisan divides

Puryear, C., et al. (2024). People believe political opponents accept blatant moral wrongs, fueling partisan divides. PNAS Nexus, 3(7), 1-12.

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Helen DevineAugust 1, 2024Morality
Understanding news-related user comments and their effects: A systematic review

Kubin, E., et al. (2024). Understanding news-related user comments and their effects: A systematic review. Frontiers in Communication, 9. 

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Helen DevineAugust 1, 2024
Political censorship feels acceptable when ideas seem harmful and false

Kubin, E., von Sikorski, C., & Gray, K. (2024). Political censorship feels acceptable when ideas seem harmful and false. Political Psychology, 00, 1-21. 

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Helen DevineAugust 1, 2024
Perception of experience influences altruism and perception of agency influences trust in human–machine interactions

Oudah, M., Makovi, K., Gray, K., Battu, B., & Rahwan, T. (2024). Perception of experience influences altruism and perception of agency influences trust in human–machine interactions. Scientific Reports, 14. 

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Helen DevineAugust 1, 2024Artificial Intelligence
People reject free money and cheap deals because they infer phantom costs

Vonasch, A., Mofradidoost, R., & Gray, K. (2024). People reject free money and cheap deals because they infer phantom costs. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1-18. 

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Helen DevineAugust 1, 2024Miscellaneous
Do companies think and feel? Mind perception of organizations

Tang, S. & Gray, K. (2023). Do companies think and feel? Mind perception of organizations. Cognitive Science, 47(8). 

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Helen DevineAugust 1, 2024Mind Perception
Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias

Affinito, S. J., Antoine, G. E., Gray, K., Maddux, W. W. (2023). Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 109. 

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Helen DevineAugust 1, 2024
Generalized Morality Culturally Evolves as an Adaptive Heuristic in Large Social Networks

Jackson, J. C., Halberstadt, J., Takezawa, M., Liew, K., Smith, K., Apicella, C., Gray, K. (2023). Generalized morality culturally evolves as an adaptive heuristic in large social networks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(6), 1207-1238. 

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Helen DevineAugust 1, 2024Morality
Cultural Differences in People’s Reactions and Applications of Robots, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence

Yam, K. C., Tan, T., Jackson, J. C., Shariff, A., Gray, K. (2023). Cultural differences in people’s reactions and applications of robots, algorithms, and artificial intelligence. Management and Organization Review, 19(5). 

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Helen DevineAugust 1, 2024Artificial Intelligence
People's Preferences for Inequality Respond Instantly to Changes in Status: A Simulated Society Experiment of Conflict Between the Rich and the Poor

Vuletich, H., Gray, K., & Payne, K. (2023). People's preferences for inequality respond instantly to changes in status: A simulated society experiment of conflict between the rich and the poor. Cognitive Science, 27. 

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Helen DevineAugust 1, 2024Miscellaneous
Moral Disagreement Across Politics is Explained by Different Assumptions About Who is Vulnerable to Harm (Preprint)

Womick, J., Goya-Tocchetto, D., Ochoa, N. R., Rebollar, C., Kapsaskis, K., Pratt, S., Payne, B. K., Vaisey, S., & Gray, K. (2024, March 26). Moral Disagreement across Politics is Explained by Different Assumptions about who is Most Vulnerable to Harm. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qsg7j

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Kurt GrayApril 12, 2024Morality
Moral Panics on Social Media are Fueled by Signals of Virality

Puryear, C., Vandello, J. A., & Gray, K. (2024). Moral Panics on Social Media are Fueled by Signals of Virality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000379

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Kurt GrayApril 12, 2024Morality
Victimhood: The Most Powerful Force in Morality and Politics

Gray, K., & Kubin, E. (2024). Victimhood: The Most Powerful Force in Morality and Politics. Accepted at Advances in Experimental Social Psychology.

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Kurt GrayApril 12, 2024Morality
Using "Balanced Pragmatism" in Political Discussions Increases Cross-Partisan Respect

Puryear, C., & Gray, K. (2024). Using “Balanced Pragmatism” in Political Discussions Increases Cross-Party Respect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001554

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Kurt GrayApril 12, 2024Morality
Seeing Your Life Story as a Hero's Journey Increases Meaning in Life

Rogers, B. A., Chicas, H., Kelly, J. M., Kubin, E., Christian, M. S., Kachanoff, F. J., Berger, J., Puryear, C., McAdams, D. P., & Gray, K. (2023). Seeing your life story as a hero’s journey increases meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Journal ArticlesKurt GraySeptember 1, 2023Miscellaneous
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena

Jackson, J., Dillon, D., Bastian, J., Watts, J., Buckner, W., DiMaggio, N, & Gray, K. Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena. Nature Human Behavior.

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Kurt GrayJune 22, 2023Religion
Can AI language models replace human participants?

Dillion, D., Tandon, N., Gu, Y., & Gray, K. (2023) .Can AI language models replace human participants? Trends in Cognitive Science

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Kurt GrayJune 19, 2023Artificial Intelligence
The Psychology of Robots and Artificial Intelligence

Gray et al. (in press). The psychology of robots and artificial intelligence. In The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th ed. (Gilbert, D. et al, eds.), Situational Press: Cambridge, MA

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Kurt GrayApril 25, 2023Artificial Intelligence
Interventions to reduce partisan animosity

Hartman, R., Blakey, W., Womick, J., Bail, Ch., Finkel, E. J., Han, H., Sarrouf, J., Schroeder, J., Sheeran, P., Van Bavel, J., Willer, R., & Gray, K. (2022). Interventions to reduce partisan animosity. Nature Human Behavior.

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Kurt GraySeptember 19, 2022
When your boss is a robot: Workers are more spiteful to robot supervisors that seem more human

Yam, K. C., Goh, E., Fehr, R., Lee, R., Soh, H.., & Gray, K. (2022). When your boss is a robot: Workers are more spiteful to robot supervisors that seem more human..Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

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Kurt GraySeptember 1, 2022Artificial Intelligence
The Rise of Robots Increases Job Insecurity and Maladaptive Workplace Behaviors: Multimethod Evidence

Yam, K.C., Tang, P.M., Jackson, J.C., Su, R., Gray, K. (2022). The rise of robots increases job insecurity and maladaptive workplace behaviors: Multimethod evidence. Journal of Applied Psychology.

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In PressKurt GrayAugust 18, 2022Artificial Intelligence
Problem of Purity in Moral Psychology

Gray K., DiMaggio N., Schein C., & Kachanoff F., (In Press) The Problem of Purity in Moral Psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review.

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In PressKurt GrayAugust 18, 2022Morality
Equating Silence with Violence: When White Americans Feel Threatened by Anti-Racist Messages

Kachanoff F, J., Kteily, N., Gray, K., (2022) Equating Silence with Violence: When White Americans Feel Threatened by Anti-Racist Messages. Journal of Experimental Psychology.

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Kurt GrayJune 23, 2022
How Inferred Motives Shape Moral Judgments

Carlson, R. W., Bigman, Y. E., Gray, K., Ferguson, M., Crockett, M, J. (2022) How Inferred Motives Shape Moral Judgements. Nature Reviews Psychology.

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Kurt GrayJune 15, 2022
Algorithmic Discrimination Causes Less Moral Outrage than Human Discrimination

Bigman, Y. E., Wilson, D., Arnestad, M. N., Waytz, A., Gray, K. (In Press). Algorithmic Discrimination Causes Less Moral Outrage Than Human Discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

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In PressKurt GrayApril 5, 2022Artificial Intelligence
The Affective Harm Account (AHA) of Moral Judgment: Reconciling Cognition and Affect, Dyadic Morality and Disgust, Harm and Purity

Gray, K., MacCormack, J. K., Henry, T., Banks, E., Schein, C., Armstrong-Carter, E. Abrams, S., Muscatell., K. A. (In Press). The Affective Harm Account (AHA) of Moral Judgment: Reconciling Cognition and Affect, Dyadic Morality and Disgust, Harm and Purity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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In PressKurt GrayMarch 4, 2022Morality
Deconstructing Moral Character Judgments

Hartman, R., Blakey, W., & Gray, K. (2022). Deconstructing moral character judgments. Current Opinion in Psychology.

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2022Kurt GrayFebruary 9, 2022Morality
Threat rejection fuels political dehumanization

Kubin, E., Kachanoff, F. J., Gray, K. (2022). Threat rejection fuels political dehumanization. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

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Kurt GrayFebruary 8, 2022
Collective Autonomy: Why Groups Fight for Power and Status

Kachanoff, F. J., Gray, K., Koestner, R., Kteily, N., & Wohl, M. J. A. (2021). Collective autonomy: Why groups fight for power and status. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

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2021Kurt GrayJanuary 7, 2022
The New Science of Religious Change

Jackson, J. C., Caluori, N., Gray, K., & Gelfand, M. (2021). The new science of religious change. American Psychologist.

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2021Kurt GrayDecember 17, 2021Religion
The Moral Identity Picture Scale (MIPS): Measuring the Full Scope of Moral Identity (Full Scale)

Goranson, A., O’Fallon, C., & Gray, K. (2021). Self & Identity.

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2021Kurt GrayDecember 2, 2021Morality
The Moral Identity Picture Scale (MIPS): Measuring the Full Scope of Moral Identity (Journal Article)

Goranson, A., O’Fallon, C., & Gray, K. (2021). Self & Identity.

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2021Kurt GrayOctober 4, 2021Morality
Reducing the uncanny valley by dehumanizing humanoid robots

Yam, K. C., Bigman, Y., Gray, K. (2021). Reducing the uncanny valley by dehumanizing humanoid robots. Computers in Human Behavior.

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Kurt GrayJuly 4, 2021Artificial Intelligence
Feeling empathy for organizations: Moral consequences, mechanisms, and the power of framing

Tang, S., & Gray, K. (2021). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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2021, Journal ArticlesKurt GrayMay 26, 2021Mind Perception
Threat of racial and economic inequality increases preference for algorithm decision-making

Bigman, Y. E., Yam, K. C., Mariano, D., Reynolds, S. J., Gray, K. (2021). Threat of racial and economic inequality increases preference for algorithm decision-making. Computers in Human Behavior.

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Kurt GrayMay 4, 2021Artificial Intelligence
It’s a Match: Task Assignment in Human–Robot Collaboration Depends on Mind Perception

Wiese, E., Weis, P., Bigman, Y., Kapsaskis, K., & Gray, K. (in press). International Journal of Social Robotics

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In Press, Journal ArticlesKurt GrayApril 5, 2021Mind Perception, Artificial Intelligence
Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts

Kubin, E., Puryear, C., Schein, C., & Gray, K. (in press). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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In Press, Journal ArticlesKurt GrayFebruary 1, 2021Morality
Tight cultures and vengeful gods: How culture shapes religious belief

Jackson, J. C., Caluori, N., Abrams, S., Beckman, E., Gelfand, M., & Gray, K. (in press). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

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In Press, Journal ArticlesKurt GrayJanuary 22, 2021Religion
The new trinity of religious moral character: The cooperator, the crusader, and the complicit

Abrams, S., Jackson, J. C., Gray, K. (2020).Current Opinion in Psychology, 40, 99-105

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2020, Journal ArticlesKurt GrayJanuary 22, 2021Religion, Morality
Take an emotion walk: Perceiving emotions from gaits using hierarchical attention pooling and affective mapping.

Bhattacharya, U., Roncal, C., Mittal, T., Chandra, R., Kapsaskis, K., Gray, K., Bera, A., Manocha, D. (2020). Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, 145-163.

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2020, Journal ArticlesKurt GrayJanuary 22, 2021Miscellaneous, Artificial Intelligence
Measuring realistic and symbolic threats of COVID-19 and their unique impacts on wellbeing and adherence to public health behaviors.

Kachanoff, F., Bigman, Y., Kapsaskis, K., Gray., K. (in press). Social Psychological and Personality Science.

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In Press, Journal ArticlesKurt GrayJanuary 22, 2021Morality, Miscellaneous
On intersectionality: How complex patterns of discrimination can emerge from simple stereotypes

Hester, N., Payne, B. K., Brown-Iannuzzi, J., Gray, K. (2020). Psychological Science, 31(8), 1013-1024.

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2020, Journal ArticlesKurt GrayJanuary 21, 2021Morality
Doctors Are Seen as Godlike: Moral Typecasting in Medicine

Goranson, A., Sheeran, P., Katz, J., Gray, K. (2020). Social Science & Medicine, 113008.

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In Press, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesJune 14, 2020Mind Perception
Algorithmic Discrimination Causes Less Moral Outrage than Human Discrimination

Bigman, Y.E., Wilson, D., Arnestad, M.N., Waytz, A., & Gray, K. (preprint).

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Preprint, 2020ScienceSitesJune 3, 2020Artificial Intelligence
How People Perceive the Minds of the Dead: The Importance of Consciousness at the Moment of Death

Doyle, C.M. & Gray, K. (2020). Cognition, 202, 104308.

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Journal Articles, 2020ScienceSitesJune 3, 2020Mind Perception
Could a Rising Robot Workforce Make Humans Less Prejudiced?

Jackson, J.C., Castelo, N., & Gray, K. (2020). American Psychologist, 75(7), 969-982.

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Journal Articles, 2020ScienceSitesJune 3, 2020Morality, Artificial Intelligence
Life and death decisions of autonomous vehicles

Bigman, Y., & Gray, K. (2020). Nature, 579, E1-E2.

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2020, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesJune 3, 2020Morality, Artificial Intelligence
Conflict Changes How People View God

Caluori, N., Jackson, J.C., Gray, K., & Gelfand, M. (2020). Psychological Science, 31(3), 280-292.

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Journal Articles, 2020ScienceSitesJune 3, 2020Religion
The Moral Psychology of Raceless Genderless Strangers

Hester, N. & Gray, K. (2020). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 216-230.

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Journal Articles, 2020ScienceSitesJune 3, 2020Morality
Praise-Many, Blame-Fewer: A Common (and Successful) Strategy for Attributing Responsibility in Groups

Schein, C., Jackson, J.C., Frasca, T., Gray, K. (2020). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 149, 855-869.

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Journal Articles, 2020ScienceSitesJune 3, 2020Morality, New Methods
Promiscuous Condemnation: People Assume Ambiguous Actions Are Immoral

Hester, N., Payne, B.K., & Gray, K. (2020). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 86, 103910.

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2020, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesJune 3, 2020Morality
When A Good God Makes Bad People: Testing a Theory of Religion and Immorality

Jackson, J.C. & Gray, K. (2019). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117(6), 1203-1230.

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2019, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesJune 3, 2020Religion, Morality
Would I Really Make a Difference? Moral Typecasting Theory and Its Implications for Helping Ethical Leaders

Yam, K.C., Fehr, R., Burch, T., Zhang, Y. & Gray, K. (2019). Journal of Business Ethics, 160(3), 675–692.

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2019, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesMay 5, 2020Morality, Mind Perception
“Forward Flow”: A New Measure to Quantify Free Thought and Predict Creativity

Gray, K., Anderson, S., Chen, E.E., Kelly, J.M., Christian, M.S., Patrick, J., Huang, L., Kenett, Y.N., Lewis, K. (2019). American Psychologist, 74(5), 539-554.

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2019, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesMay 5, 2020New Methods, Miscellaneous
Creepiness Creeps In: Uncanny Valley Feelings Are Acquired in Childhood

Brink, K.A., Gray, K. & Wellman, H.M. (2019). Child Development, 90(4), 1202-1214.

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2019, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesMay 5, 2020Mind Perception, Artificial Intelligence
Military Veterans Are Morally Typecast as Agentic But Unfeeling: Implications for Veteran Employment

Shepherd, S., Kay, A.C., & Gray, K. (2019). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 153, 75-88.

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ScienceSitesMay 5, 2020Morality, Mind Perception
Holding Robots Responsible: The Elements of Machine Morality

Bigman, Y., Waytz, A., Alterovitz, R., & Gray, K. (2019). Trends in Cognitive Science, 23(5), 365-368.

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2019, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesMay 5, 2020Morality, Artificial Intelligence
People Are Averse to Machines Making Moral Decisions

Bigman, Y. & Gray, K. (2018). Cognition, 181, 21-34.

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2018, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesJanuary 31, 2019Morality, Artificial Intelligence
The Socially Invisible Robot: Navigation in the Social World Using Robot Entitativity

Bera, A., Randhavane, T., Kubin, E., Wang, A., Gray, K. & Manocha, D. (2018). Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 4468-4475.

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2018ScienceSitesJanuary 23, 2019New Methods, Artificial Intelligence
Identifying Driver Behaviors Using Trajectory Features for Vehicle Navigation

Cheung, E.C., Bera, A., Kubin, E., Gray, K., & Manocha, D. (2018). Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, 3445-3452, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8594348.

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2018, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesJanuary 11, 2019New Methods
CEOs Imbue Organizations With Feelings, Increasing Punishment Satisfaction and Apology Effectiveness

Tang, S. & Gray, K. (2018). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 115-125.

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2018, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesJanuary 2, 2019Mind Perception, Morality
The Faces of God in America: Revealing Religious Diversity Across People and Politics

Jackson, J.C., Hester, N. & Gray, K. (2018). PLOS One, 13(6): e0198745.

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2018, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesDecember 1, 2018Religion, New Methods
Does Online Technology Make Us More or Less Sociable? A Preliminary Review and Call for Research

Waytz, A. & Gray, K. (2018). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(4), 473-491.

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2018, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesNovember 1, 2018Miscellaneous, Morality
To Be Immortal, Do Good or Evil

Gray, K., Anderson, S., Doyle, C.M., Hester, N., Schmitt, P., Vonasch, A., Allison, S., & Jackson., J. (2018). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 44(6), 868-880.

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2018, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesOctober 1, 2018Religion, Morality
For Black Men, Being Tall Increases Threat Stereotyping and Police Stops

Hester, N. & Gray, K. (2018). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(11), 2711-2715.

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2018, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 11, 2018New Methods, Morality
The Theory of Dyadic Morality: Reinventing Moral Judgments by Redefining Harm

Schein, C. & Gray, K. (2018). Personality and Social Psychology Review, 22(1), 32-70.

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2018, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesAugust 8, 2018Morality, New Methods
Functional Intimacy: Needing—But Not Wanting—the Touch of a Stranger

Schroeder, J., Fishbach, A., Schein, C., Gray, K. (2017). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113(6), 910-924.

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2017, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesJanuary 11, 2018Miscellaneous
How to Think About Emotion and Morality: Circles, Not Arrows

Gray, K., Schein, C. & Cameron C.D. (2017). Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 41-46.

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2017, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesDecember 30, 2017Morality
Dying Is Unexpectedly Positive

Goranson, A., Ritter, R.S., Waytz, A., Norton, M.I., & Gray, K. (2017). Psychological Science, 28(7), 988-999.

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2017, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesDecember 1, 2017Miscellaneous, New Methods
The Paradox of Group Mind: “People in a Group” Have More Mind Than “a Group of People”

Cooley, E., Payne, B.K., Cipolli, W., Cameron, C.D., Berger, A., Gray, K. (2017). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(5), 691-699.

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2017, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesNovember 22, 2017Mind Perception
How to Map Theory: Reliable Methods Are Fruitless Without Rigorous Theory

Gray, K. (2017). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(5), 731-741.
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2017, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesOctober 10, 2017New Methods, Miscellaneous
Differential Patterns in Mind Perception in Subclinical Paranoia: Relationships to Self-Reported Empathy

Ben, B., Hester, N., Penn, D.L, & Gray, K. (2017). Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 22(2), 137-144.

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2017, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 11, 2017Mind Perception
Constructing Contempt (commentary)

Spring, V.L., Cameron, C.D., Gray, K., Lindquist, K.A. (2017). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 37-38.

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2017, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesAugust 31, 2017Miscellaneous
Agent-Based Modeling: A Guide for Social Psychologists

Jackson, J.C., Rand, D.G., Lewis, K., Norton, M.I., & Gray, K. (2017). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(4), 387-395.

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2017, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesMay 31, 2017New Methods
Harm Mediates the Disgust-Immorality Link

Schein, C., Ritter, R.S., & Gray, K. (2016). Emotion, 16(6), 862-876.

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2016, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesJanuary 2, 2017Morality
The MR2: A Multi-Racial, Mega-Resolution Database of Facial Stimuli

Strohminger, N., Gray K., Chituc, V., Heffner, J., Schein, C., Heagins, T.B., (2016). Behavior Research Methods, 48, 1179-1204.

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2016, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesDecember 12, 2016New Methods
No Absolutism Here: Harm Predicts Moral Judgment 30x Better Than Disgust—Commentary on Scott, Inbar & Rozin (2015)

Gray, K. & Schein, C. (2016). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(3), 325-329.

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2016, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesNovember 11, 2016Morality
Trickle-Down Preferences: Preferential Conformity to High Status Peers in Fashion Choices

Galak, J., Gray, K., Elbert, I., & Strohminger, N. (2016). PLoS One, 11(5): e0153448. DOI: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153448.

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2016, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 12, 2016Miscellaneous
The Visual Guide to Morality: Vision as an Integrative Analogy for Moral Experience, Variability and Mechanism

Schein, C., Hester, N. & Gray, K. (2016). Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 10, 231-251.

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2016, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesAugust 31, 2016Morality
Moralization and Harmification: The Dyadic Loop Explains How the Innocuous Becomes Harmful and Wrong

Schein, C. & Gray, K. (2016). Psychological Inquiry, 27, 62-65.

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2016, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesJune 22, 2016Morality
The Uncensored Truth About Morality: Ubiquitous Harm and Our Dyadic Moral Minds

Schein, C., Goranson, A., & Gray, K. (2015). The Psychologist, 28, 982-985.

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2015, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesDecember 24, 2015
The Eyes Are the Window to the Uncanny Valley: Mind Perception, Autism and Missing Souls

Schein, C. & Gray, K. (2015). Interaction Studies, 16, 173-179.

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2015, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesDecember 18, 2015Mind Perception, Artificial Intelligence
A Constructionist Review of Morality and Emotions: No Evidence for Specific Relationships Between Moral Content and Discrete Emotions

Cameron, C.D., Lindquist, K.A., & Gray, K. (2015). Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19, 371-394.

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2015, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesDecember 12, 2015Morality
Impure, or Just Weird? Scenario Sampling Bias Raises Questions About the Foundation of Morality

Gray, K. & Keeney, J.E. (2015). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 859-868.

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2015, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesNovember 30, 2015Morality
Disconfirming Moral Foundations Theory on Its Own Terms: Reply to Graham (2015)

Gray, K. & Keeney, J.E. (2015). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 874-877.

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2015, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesOctober 30, 2015Morality
The Unifying Moral Dyad: Liberals and Conservatives Share the Same Harm-Based Moral Template

Schein, C. & Gray, K. (2015). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1147-1163.

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2015, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 30, 2015Morality, Mind Perception
The Myth of Harmless Wrongs in Moral Cognition: Automatic Dyadic Completion From Sin to Suffering

Gray, K.*, Schein, C.*, & Ward. A.F. (2014). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1600-1615.

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2014, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesJanuary 11, 2015Morality, Mind Perception
The Science of Style: In Fashion, Colors Should Match Only Moderately

Gray. K., Schmitt, P., Strohminger, N. & Kassam, K.S. (2014). PLoS One, 9: e102772.

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2014, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesDecember 31, 2014Miscellaneous
Harm Concerns Predict Moral Judgments of Suicide: Comment on Rottman, Kelemen and Young (2014)

Gray. K. (2014). Cognition, 130, 217-226.

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2014, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesNovember 11, 2014Morality
The Prototype Model of Blame: Freeing Moral Cognition From Linearity and Little Boxes

Schein, C. & Gray, K. (2014). Psychological Inquiry, 25, 236-240.

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2014, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesOctober 31, 2014Morality
The Emergence of “Us and Them” in 80 Lines of Code: Modeling Group Genesis in Homogeneous Populations (PDF) [online demo]

Gray, K.*, Rand, D.G.*, Eyal, E., Lewis, K., Hershman, S. & Norton, M.I. (2014). Psychological Science, 25, 982-990.
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2014, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 11, 2014New Methods, Miscellaneous
The Structure of Online Activism

Lewis, K., Gray, K. & Meierhenrich, J. (2014). Sociological Science, 1, 1-9.

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2014, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesJune 22, 2014
Paying It Forward: Generalized Reciprocity and the Limits of Generosity

Gray, K. & Ward, A.F. & Norton, M.I. (2014). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 247-254.

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2014, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesMay 5, 2014Morality
Give What You Get: Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-Year-Old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics

Leimgruber, K.L., Ward, A.F., Widness, J., Norton, M.I., Olson, K.R., Gray, K., Santos, L.R., (2014). PLoS One, 9: e87035.

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2014, In Press, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesApril 4, 2014Morality
Six Guidelines for Interesting Research

Gray, K. & Wegner, D.M. (2013). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8(5), 549-553.

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2013, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesDecember 31, 2013Miscellaneous
Two Minds vs. Two Philosophies: Mind Perception Defines Morality and Dissolves the Debate Between Deontology and Utilitarianism

Gray, K. & Schein, C. (2012). Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 3, 405-423.

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2012, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesDecember 2, 2013Morality, Mind Perception
Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality [target article]

Gray, K., Young, L., Waytz, A. (2012). Psychological Inquiry, 23(2), 101-124.
*Winner of SPSP Theoretical Innovation Award

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2012, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesNovember 22, 2013Mind Perception, Morality
The Moral Dyad: A Fundamental Template Unifying Moral Judgment (reply to commentaries)

Gray, K., Waytz, A., Young, L. (2012). Psychological Inquiry, 23, 206-215.

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2012, Journal Articles, Reply To CommentaryScienceSitesNovember 11, 2013Morality, Mind Perception
Feeling Robots and Human Zombies: Mind Perception and the Uncanny Valley

Gray, K. & Wegner, D.M. (2012). Cognition, 125, 125-130.

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2012, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesOctober 10, 2013Mind Perception, Artificial Intelligence
The Power of Good Intentions: Perceived Benevolence Soothes Pain, Increases Pleasure, and Improves Taste

Gray, K. (2012). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(5), 639-645.

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2012, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 30, 2013Mind Perception, Morality
Simulating Murder: The Aversion to Harmful Actions

Cushman, F., Gray, K., Gaffey, A. & Mendes, W.B. (2012). Emotion, 12(1), 2-7.

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2012, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 27, 2013Morality
More Than a Body: Mind Perception and the Nature of Objectification

Gray, K., Knobe, J., Sheskin, M., Bloom. P. & Barrett, L.F. (2011). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(6), 1207-1220.

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2011, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 23, 2013Mind Perception
More Dead Than Dead: Perceptions of Persons in the Persistent Vegetative State

Gray, K., Knickman, T.A. & Wegner, D.M. (2011). Cognition, 121, 275-280.

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2011, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 18, 2013Mind Perception
Dimensions of Moral Emotions

Gray, K. & Wegner, D.M. (2011). Emotion Review, 3(3), 258-260.

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2011, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 11, 2013Morality
To Escape Blame, Don't Be a Hero—Be a Victim

Gray, K. & Wegner, D.M. (2011). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 516-519.

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2011, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 9, 2013Morality, Mind Perception
Distortions of Mind Perception in Psychopathology

Gray, K., Jenkins A.C., Heberlein A.H. & Wegner, D.M. (2011). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(2), 477-479.

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2011, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 6, 2013Mind Perception, Morality
Moral Transformation: Good and Evil Turn the Weak Into the Mighty

Gray, K. (2010). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(3), 253-258.

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2010, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 5, 2013Mind Perception, Morality
Causes and Consequences of Mind Perception

Waytz, A., Gray, K., Epley, N., & Wegner, D.M. (2010). Trends in Cognitive Science, 14, 383-388.

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2010, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 4, 2013Morality, Mind Perception
Blaming God for Our Pain: Human Suffering and the Divine Mind

Gray, K. & Wegner, D.M. (2010). Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14(1), 7-16.

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2010, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 3, 2013Religion, Mind Perception, Morality
Torture and Judgments of Guilt

Gray, K. & Wegner, D.M. (2010). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(1), 233-235.

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2010, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 3, 2013Morality
Moral Typecasting: Divergent Perceptions of Moral Agents and Moral Patients

Gray, K. & Wegner, D.M. (2009). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(3), 505-520.

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2009, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 3, 2013Morality, Mind Perception
The Sting of Intentional Pain

Gray, K. & Wegner, D.M. (2008). Psychological Science, 19, 1260-62.

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2008, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 3, 2013Morality, Mind Perception
Dimensions of Mind Perception

Gray, H.M., Gray, K. & Wegner, D.M. (2007). Science, 315, 619.

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2007, Journal ArticlesScienceSitesSeptember 2, 2013Mind Perception, Morality, Religion, Artificial Intelligence

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  • Kurt Gray
    RT @MorbidPsych: It's harder to track motives in larger/more anonymous societies --> higher curiosity for minds of dangerous people… https://t.co/SMFgjrGh1H
    Apr 3, 2023, 8:44 PM
  • Kurt Gray
    Now published in @NatureHumBehav! A massive study shows religious explanations around the world evolved more to exp… https://t.co/igWinhhFl9
    Apr 3, 2023, 8:41 PM

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