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A year ago Kurt Gray and I argued that popular discourse about the "loneliness epidemic" might be making people more lonely. Today Nature Communications published direct evidence for this: reading news stories about the risks of isolation makes people feel worse about being alone. 🧵

Kurt Gray Beyond Conflict One America Movement Now available as an easily accessible pdf on OSF! osf.io/preprints/osf/…

The Deepest Beliefs Lab will be well represented at next week's Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference in Denver! Come check out these talks and say hello!

Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground By ⁦Kurt Gray⁩ Pantheon 368 pp. Reviewed by ⁦Michael Maiello⁩ washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/out…

Do liberals prioritize distant others over close relationships? Our large-scale analyses find no tradeoff—liberals’ broader moral concern coexists with care for family & community. Implications for policy & moral psychology: osf.io/preprints/psya… #MoralPsychology #Ideology

Remote work doesn't thwart productivity. It boosts focus. Data: Government workers are 12% more productive when randomly assigned to work from home. They're more efficient where it's quiet. Most people aren't shirking from home. They're escaping distractions and long commutes.

Opinion by Kate Cohen: Kurt Gray’s “Outraged” argues for understanding opponents’ perceived harms. I won’t be counting on that. wapo.st/4i8EVyS

We hope you'll join us Tuesday, March 4 at 7pm ET 4 pm PT for "OUTRAGED!" with special guest Kurt Gray—an important thinker for the time we're in. Join us from your fave couch: villagesquare.us/event/outraged/ Thanks to Florida Humanities and National Endowment for the Humanities and our fab streaming partners!

Maggie is very happy with the delivery of Kurt Gray's new book and said she's really excited to learn about why we fight about morality and politics (and ideally why people that prefer cats are evil).

In the new book Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground, moral psychologist Kurt Gray offers a framework for bridging divides. Read the #ScienceBooks Review: scim.ag/3DhcHDd

See what others are saying about OUTRAGED! 👀📖 Kurt Gray’s groundbreaking book challenges everything we think we know about moral judgment, outrage, and what really divides us. 🌎💡 Could understanding harm be the key to bridging the gap? penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714327/o…

New Paper in Philosophical Psychology: Trust in experts is low. Why? How bad is it? And what should we do? To answer these questions, we reviewed philosophy (when *ought* we defer to the experts) and psychology (when *do* people defer to the experts). Link in comments!

Thursday on Charlotte Talks, the science behind our increasing political polarization and how to change it. We'll be joined by UNC-Chapel Hill 's Kurt Gray to discuss his new book "Outraged: Why We Fight about Morality and Politics." Join us at 9AM wfae.org/show/charlotte…

Health systems globally use universal standards to diagnose everything from anemia to malnutrition. But by treating bodies as identical, these benchmarks hide dysfunction & often worsen outcomes. My newest essay argues for embracing biological diversity: newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

"We tend to think of our political opponents as stupid, but...Liberals and conservatives generally score pretty similarly on the SAT and ACT and have similar college GPAs...Liberals and conservatives perform similarly on comprehensive IQ tests" a.co/d/6oj477D

New Outrage Overload episode with Kurt Gray is out now! 🎙️ Here’s why this book is a game-changer on moral outrage… (🧵👇) outrageoverload.net/outrage-61-out…

New post: What do a physicist in a strip club, a pop star in a church, and government officials making war plans in a group chat have in common? 🔬🎤💣 The setting is all wrong—so wrong that their decisions start to feel immoral. (🔗 in thread)

Happy last day of school - I successfully finished year one of grad school! ✅I will be moving with the Deepest Beliefs Lab this summer and will complete the rest of my PhD at the Ohio State University. Thank you to UNC Psych & Neuro for a great first year!

The latest episode of Open Book is out now: Finding Common Ground in a Divided America with Professor Kurt Gray Kurt Gray You can watch the episode here on X or on YouTube. Timestamps (0:00) Prof. Kurt Gray introduction (3:23) Personal experiences with political division

Lovely wide ranging, deep, and timely discussion between moral psychologist @KurtJGray and Anthony Scaramucci on our perceptions of harm, victimhood, the future of polarization, and how to effectively communicate across divides tinyurl.com/36y3m5d3