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Overview

Kurt Gray is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans social sciences and psychology, with particular attention to sociology and political science, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and safety research.

The scientist's work focuses extensively on the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, death anxiety and social exclusion, emotions and moral behavior, AI in service interactions, and the ethics and social impacts of AI.

Their recent published papers include the following:

  • "Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries," 2024, Science Advances
  • "Can AI language models replace human participants?," 2023, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "The rise of robots increases job insecurity and maladaptive workplace behaviors: Multimethod evidence," 2022, Journal of Applied Psychology
  • "Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Robots at work: People prefer-and forgive-service robots with perceived feelings," 2020, Journal of Applied Psychology

Kurt Gray frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Yochanan Bigman, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Frank Kachanoff, Curtis Puryear, and Kai Chi Yam.

Their research has been published in various venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in UNC Libraries. Other frequent publication venues include the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Academy of Management Proceedings, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Journal of Experimental Psychology General.

Best Publications

  • Dimensions of mind perception

    Heather M. Gray;Kurt Gray;Daniel M. Wegner

  • Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality

    Kurt James Gray;Liane Young;Adam Waytz

  • Feeling Robots and Human Zombies: Mind Perception and the Uncanny Valley.

    Kurt Gray;Daniel M. Wegner

  • Causes and consequences of mind perception

    Adam Waytz;Kurt James Gray;Nicholas Epley;Daniel M. Wegner

  • The Theory of Dyadic Morality: Reinventing Moral Judgment by Redefining Harm:

    Chelsea Schein;Kurt James Gray

  • Moral typecasting: divergent perceptions of moral agents and moral patients.

    Kurt Gray;Daniel M. Wegner

  • People are averse to machines making moral decisions.

    Yochanan E. Bigman;Kurt James Gray

  • The myth of harmless wrongs in moral cognition: Automatic dyadic completion from sin to suffering.

    Kurt James Gray;Chelsea Schein;Adrian F. Ward

  • Blaming God for Our Pain: Human Suffering and the Divine Mind

    Kurt Gray;Daniel M. Wegner

  • Simulating Murder: The Aversion to Harmful Action

    Fiery Cushman;Kurt Gray;Allison Gaffey;Wendy Berry Mendes

  • More than a body: mind perception and the nature of objectification.

    Kurt Gray;Joshua Knobe;Mark Sheskin;Paul Bloom

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

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  • The Moral Dyad: A Fundamental Template Unifying Moral Judgment.

    Kurt Gray;Adam Waytz;Liane Young

  • The Unifying Moral Dyad Liberals and Conservatives Share the Same Harm-Based Moral Template

    Chelsea Schein;Kurt James Gray

  • Robots at work: People prefer-and forgive-service robots with perceived feelings.

    Kai Chi Yam;Yochanan E Bigman;Pok Man Tang;Remus Ilies

  • Atlas of Moral Psychology

    Kurt Gray;Jesse Graham

  • A Constructionist Review of Morality and Emotions No Evidence for Specific Links Between Moral Content and Discrete Emotions

    C. Daryl Cameron;Kristen Ann Lindquist;Kurt James Gray

  • Distortions of Mind Perception in Psychopathology

    Kurt James Gray;Adrianna C. Jenkins;Andrea S. Heberlein;Daniel M. Wegner

  • Paying It Forward: Generalized Reciprocity and the Limits of Generosity

    Kurt Gray;Adrian Frank Ward;Michael Irwin Norton

  • The Sting of Intentional Pain

    Kurt Gray;Daniel M. Wegner

  • The Structure of Online Activism

    Kevin Lewis;Kurt James Gray;Jens Meierhenrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel M. Wegner
Daniel M. Wegner Harvard University
Adam Waytz
Adam Waytz Northwestern University
Michael I. Norton
Michael I. Norton Harvard University
Liane Young
Liane Young Boston College
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Michele J. Gelfand
Michele J. Gelfand Stanford University
Yoed N. Kenett
Yoed N. Kenett Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
B. Keith Payne
B. Keith Payne University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brock Bastian
Brock Bastian University of Melbourne
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University

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