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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Dying Is Unexpectedly Positive
Goranson, A., Ritter, R.S., Waytz, A., Norton, M.I., & Gray, K. (2017). Psychological Science, 28(7), 988-999.
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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Constructing Contempt (commentary)
Spring, V.L., Cameron, C.D., Gray, K., Lindquist, K.A. (2017). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 37-38.
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.
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.
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.
* Winner of ISCON Best Paper Award
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Six Guidelines for Interesting Research
Gray, K. & Wegner, D.M. (2013). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8(5), 549-553.