People

Director

Kurt Gray

is the Weary Foundation Endowed Chair in Social Psychology at the Ohio State University and an expert in the psychology of people’s deepest beliefs and why they matter for society and organizations. He is also the Director of the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, which uses interdisciplinary science to bridge social divides. He grew up in Canada, completed his BSc at the University of Waterloo and his PhD at Harvard with the late Daniel Wegner. He was almost a geophysicist instead of a social psychologist, but a cold night stranded and stalked by lynx in Northern Alberta convinced him otherwise. He is married to a neuroscientist, together they have two daughters.

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Post-Doctoral Fellows

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Emily Kubin

studies how people (and the media) can reduce negative perceptions of political opponents--focusing on interventions to bridge political divides.

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Sam Taylor

studies how to reduce polarisation through studying shared common values and by understanding the role of attitude strength in predicting extreme behavior.

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Danica Dillion

studies how social network structures impact affective polarization. She also investigates how religious beliefs change over time, and how people adapt to new technology.

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Jonah Koetke

studies ideological conflict and the barriers to public acceptance of accurate and science-based information.

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Graduate Students

Madhulika Shastry

is a 2nd year student who studies how artificial intelligence and social media impact perceptions and behaviors of moral responsibility, empathy, and victimization.

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Brett Burton

is a 3rd year student who studies extremity in attitudes and beliefs, investigating what leads people to adopt extreme views and how to reduce polarized thinking.

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Cindy Zhang

is a 1st year student who studies how people form factual and moral beliefs and how these processes shape ideological divides in society.

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Miranda Stiehl

is a 1st year student who studies how religion can divide and unite people across moral and political differences.

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Lab Manager

Helen Devine

studies how morality influences various factors within the legal system.

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Undergraduate Research Assistants

Alyssa Adkins

Kaitlyn Dutton

Min Feldman

Dylan Jenkins

Theerthaa Krishnan

Fazeeha Rashmin

Pranathi Ravikumar

Danielle Rudd

Alexandra Wienkes

 

Former Undergraduate Research Assistants

Francisco Ceccotti, Marcella Kingman, Fatima Alanis, Kyra Klemes, Maggie Wong, Athena Zhou, Arthi Annadurai, Idil Baran, Mike O’Brien, Kirti Nimmala, Anna Wei, Vishanth Palanivel, Yuyao Huang, Andrea Bermudez, Sruthi Mannepalli, Noor Ghoneim, Ellison Commodore, Blake Ryan, Sydney Hall, Matthew Davis, Andre Chiquito, Longjiao Li, Alex Stubblebine, Anton Cedergrund, Ben Bramson, Dean Van Voorhis, Hanna Li, Jade Tsai, Kaylee Parish, Levin Low, Mariam Ehab, Nivedha Prathap, Sadej Singh, Siya Patel

Lab Alumni

Sharlene Fernandes
Sam Pratt (UCLA)
Belinda Woodard Samantha Abrams (Amtrak) Connor O’Fallon (U.S. Census Bureau) Will Blakey (Stanford) Carlos Rebollar (NC State) Curtis Puryear (Northwestern University) Jake Womick (Cal State Bakersfield) Joshua Jackson (Northwestern University) Rachel Hartman (CloudResearch) Yochanan Bigman (Yale University)
Daryl Cameron (Penn State)
Cameron Doyle (Facebook)
Amelia Goranson (Knox College)
Neil Hester (McGill University)
John Michael Kelly (UC-Irvine)
Chelsea Schein (Wharton)
Mihai Sirbu (Capital One)
Andrew Vonasch (Canterbury)