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Turning Down the Outrage

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February 27, 2025

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Why We Fight About Morality and Politics

— TEDx Reno

May 22, 2024

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The big idea: do our political opponents really hate us?

— The Guardian

April 8, 2024

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The psychology of political polarization | Conservatives vs. Liberals

— Stand Together

January 17, 2024

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Dyadic Morality with Kurt Gray

— The Parlia Podcast

February 17, 2021

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Polarization study points to the one technique to use in a political debate

– Inverse
January 31, 2021

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Why sharing personal stories is more important than facts in bridging political divide

– USA Today
January 27, 2021

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The Importance of Being Ernst with Rachel Ernstoff

— More of a Comment Than a Question

January 17, 2021

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2020 ScienceSites 2/22/21 2020 ScienceSites 2/22/21

Study predicts potential societal outcomes of COVID-19 pandemic

– Daily Bruin
November 12, 2020

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United Stats of America

— The PipettePen

November 3, 2020

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2020 ScienceSites 6/24/20 2020 ScienceSites 6/24/20

Machine Morality

– UNC Endeavors
May 19, 2020

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Pour One Out for the People Living Through Quarantine With Ghost Roommates

– AV Club
May 15, 2020

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Quarantining With a Ghost? It’s Scary

- The New York Times
May 14, 2020

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2020 ScienceSites 6/24/20 2020 ScienceSites 6/24/20

Can AI Detect Your Emotion Just By How You Walk?

– Forbes
March 29, 2020

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Robot Co-Workers Could Reduce Prejudice Among Humans

– Los Angeles Times
January 1, 2020

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2019 ScienceSites 6/23/20 2019 ScienceSites 6/23/20

With a New Decade — A New Hope? Reasons for Optimism in a Disordered World

– Salon
December 28, 2019

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2019 ScienceSites 6/23/20 2019 ScienceSites 6/23/20

Employers Can Stereotype Veterans as Lacking Social-Emotional Skills, Report Finds

– Military.com
October 1, 2019

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2019 ScienceSites 6/23/20 2019 ScienceSites 6/23/20

Research Shows Military Service Can Hurt Some Job Seekers’ Prospects

– Duke Fuqua School of Business
September 23, 2019

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2019 ScienceSites 6/23/20 2019 ScienceSites 6/23/20

The Appeal of Handmade in an Era of Automation

– Kellogg Insight
July 31, 2019

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2019 ScienceSites 6/23/20 2019 ScienceSites 6/23/20

People Are More Honest Than We Think, New Study Finds [$]

– The Wall Street Journal
June 20, 2019

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2019 ScienceSites 6/23/20 2019 ScienceSites 6/23/20

When Customers Want to See the Human Behind the Product

– Harvard Business Review
June 5, 2019

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Why Do People Keep Flaking Out?

– How Stuff Works
March 26, 2019

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A Generational Divide in the Uncanny Valley [$]

– The Wall Street Journal
January 10, 2019

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2018 ScienceSites 6/5/20 2018 ScienceSites 6/5/20

Why It’s So Hard to Get People to Care About Mass Suffering

– Vox
November 27, 2018

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2018 ScienceSites 6/3/20 2018 ScienceSites 6/3/20

God Looks a Lot Like You

– WUNC
July 25, 2018

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2018 ScienceSites 6/3/20 2018 ScienceSites 6/3/20

This Is What God’s Face Looks Like, According to American Christians

– Big Think
June 18, 2018

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2018 ScienceSites 6/2/20 2018 ScienceSites 6/2/20

Science Reveals the Face of God and It Looks Like Elon Musk

– Forbes
June 14, 2018

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2018 ScienceSites 6/2/20 2018 ScienceSites 6/2/20

Is This the Face of God? Most Americans Believe the Almighty Looks Like an Average White Guy

– Inside Edition
June 14, 2018

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2018 ScienceSites 6/2/20 2018 ScienceSites 6/2/20

UNC-Chapel Hill Researchers Ask Americans: “What Does God Look Like?”

– The College of Arts & Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
June 14, 2018

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God Looks Like a Cross Between Chris Pratt and Elon Musk, According to American Christians

– Esquire
June 13, 2018

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2018 ScienceSites 6/2/20 2018 ScienceSites 6/2/20

The Face of God Is in the Eye of the Beholder, Researchers Say

– NBC News
June 12, 2018

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What’s God Look Like? Depends on Your Politics and Race, Study Finds

– USA Today
June 12, 2018

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Study Finds That Americans Think God Looks Like This Guy

– GQ
June 12, 2018

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2018 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2018 ScienceSites 6/1/20

This Is What American Christians Think God Looks Like

– Motherboard
June 12, 2018

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2018 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2018 ScienceSites 6/1/20

What’s Scarier to a New York City Cop Than a Black Man? A Tall Black Man

– Los Angeles Times
February 27, 2018

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2018 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2018 ScienceSites 6/1/20

The Problem With Being Tall, Male, and Black

– Pacific Standard
February 26, 2018

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2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Inside the Future of Artificial Intelligence

– The State of Things, WUNC
November 15, 2017

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2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Kurt Gray on Developing an Open-Access, Online Measure of Imagination

– Society for Personality and Social Psychology
September 14, 2017

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2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20

What Ghosts Can Teach Us About the Nature of the Mind

– Heleo
August 16, 2017

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2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20

AI Can Be a Troublesome Teammate

– Harvard Business Review
July 20, 2017

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2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Is Dying a Happy Experience? Psychologists Show People Don’t Fear Death When the End Is Near

– Newsweek
June 6, 2017

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2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Dying Is ‘More Pleasant Than You Might Imagine’, Say Scientists

– The Telegraph
June 6, 2017

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2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Podcast Interview

– The One You Feed
May 10, 2017

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2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Do Bigots Just Lack Imagination?

– The Guardian
April 28, 2017

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2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20

How We See Refugees Could Be Changed by ‘Subtle Shifts’ in Language, Psychologists Find

– The Independent
April 13, 2017

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2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20

This One Small Language Tweak Could Change Our Views of Refugees

– Vox
April 11, 2017

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2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2017 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Beware Emotional Robots: Giving Feelings to Artificial Beings Could Backfire, Study Suggests

– Science
March 13, 2017

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2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20

‘Fuck You, 2016’

– The Atlantic
December 21, 2016

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2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20

What HBO’s Westworld Gets Wrong (and right) About Human Nature

– The Conversation
November 3, 2016

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2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Harambe, Cecil: Why We Mourn Animal Deaths So Intensely

– CNN
June 2, 2016

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High Heels and Elevated Status

– Pacific Standard
May 6, 2016

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What Your Stilettos REALLY Say About You: High Heel Map of America Finds Women Buy Higher Shoes If They Move to a Rich State and Want to Impress

– Daily Mail
May 4, 2016

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2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Mini Reviews: 3 Compelling Reads about the Brain and How It Works

– Scientific American Mind
May 1, 2016

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2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Other Minds and Cryptominds, From Babies to Robots to God

– New Scientist
April 20, 2016

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2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Listen: Thought Experiments About Who or What Has a Mind

– Boing Boing
April 15, 2016

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2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20

The Mysteries of our Minds

– Innovation Hub, WGBH
April 7, 2016

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2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Thinking About the Thinking of Others

– Jefferson Public Radio
March 25, 2016

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2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Beastie Boys and Girls: The New Anthropomorphism

– The New Yorker
February 10, 2016

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2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2016 ScienceSites 6/1/20

We Are Not Special

– Edge
2016

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2015 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2015 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Uncanny Valley: Why We Find Human-Like Robots and Dolls So Creepy

– The Conversation
November 10, 2015

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2015 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2015 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Look Who’s Talking

– Slate
September 30, 2015

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2015 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2015 ScienceSites 6/1/20

The Myth of the Harmless Wrong

– The New York Times
January 30, 2015

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2015 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2015 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Killer Thinking Machines Keep Human Consciences Clean

– Edge
2015

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2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Fashion Quantified

– Slate
August 1, 2014

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2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Science Says Matching Isn’t Fashionable

– Co.Design, Fast Company
July 21, 2014

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2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Color Coordinating Is Not Chic, Says Science

– ELLE
July 21, 2014

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2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Online Causes May Attract More Clicks Than Commitments

– Science News
June 27, 2014

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We’d Rather ‘Like’ a Facebook Cause Than Donate to It

– Science News
March 5, 2014

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2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Us vs. Them: As Simple as ABC?

– Yale Alumni Magazine
January 28, 2014

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2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20

From Football Fans to Communist Regimes, It Doesn’t Take Much to Form a Group

– Science
January 27, 2014

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2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2014 ScienceSites 6/1/20

What Scientific Idea Is Ready for Retirement? Numbering Nature

– Edge
2014

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2013 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2013 ScienceSites 6/1/20

The Ways of Lust

– The New York Times
November 29, 2013

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Bad Behavior Gets “Paid Forward” Even More Than Good

– Scientific American
November 19, 2013

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2013 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2013 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Are You Looking at Me?

– Aeon Magazine
November 6, 2013

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2013 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2013 ScienceSites 6/1/20

APS Rising Stars Profile: Kurt Gray

– Observer
March 27, 2013

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2013 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2013 ScienceSites 6/1/20

The Science Of ‘Zero Dark Thirty’: When We Can Condone Torture

– Popular Science
February 22, 2013

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2012 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2012 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Why Do Mannequins That Spy On Us Creep Us Out?

– Forbes
November 28, 2012

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We Feel More Protective Over Women AND Men in Skimpy Clothing—But Think They’re Less Competent Too

– Daily Mail
August 16, 2012

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2012 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2012 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Mapping the Uncanny Valley

– The Economist
July 21, 2012

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How to Ease the Sting With Good Intentions

– FoxNews.com
January 24, 2012

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Is This Scientific Proof That Grandma’s Cookies Taste Better Than All Others?

– Glamour
January 20, 2012

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2012 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2012 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Good Intentions Can Sooth Pain, Increase Pleasure and Make Things Taste Better, Study Finds

– The Telegraph
January 19, 2012

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2011 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2011 ScienceSites 6/1/20

The Psychology of Nakedness

– Frontal Cortex, Wired
November 30, 2011

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How Your Revealing Attire Makes People Think You’re Dumb

– Psych Central
November 11, 2011

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Scantily Clad Men Viewed As Less Competent

– LiveScience
November 11, 2011

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Does Clothing Affect Men’s Perception of Women’s Agency?

– XX Factor, Slate
October 12, 2011

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2011 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2011 ScienceSites 6/1/20

How Our Brains Turn Women Into Objects

– Scientific American
October 11, 2011

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2011 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2011 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Vegetative Patients Are Judged as ‘More Dead Than Dead’

– Booster Shots, Los Angeles Times
August 20, 2011

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2011 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2011 ScienceSites 6/1/20

How Dead Is Dead?

– The Economist
August 20, 2011

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2011 ScienceSites 6/1/20 2011 ScienceSites 6/1/20

Deader Than Dead: People in Vegetative States Are Viewed as Deader Than Corpses

– Not Exactly Rocket Science
August 2, 2011

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2011 ScienceSites 5/29/20 2011 ScienceSites 5/29/20

No More Mr Nice Guy: Why Being a Do-Gooder Counts Against You If You Slip Up

– Daily Mail
February 17, 2011

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2010 ScienceSites 5/29/20 2010 ScienceSites 5/29/20

Beyond Good and Evil (PDF)

– The Boston Globe
July 18, 2010

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2010 ScienceSites 5/29/20 2010 ScienceSites 5/29/20

Strength in Naughty or Nice

– Harvard Gazette
April 19, 2010

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2010 ScienceSites 5/29/20 2010 ScienceSites 5/29/20

The Power of Torture

– Harvard Magazine
March-April 2010

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2009 ScienceSites 5/29/20 2009 ScienceSites 5/29/20

To Tell the Truth

– Harvard Gazette
October 27, 2009

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2008 ScienceSites 5/29/20 2008 ScienceSites 5/29/20

Behavior: Pain Is Greater If Harm Seems Intentional

– Vital Signs, The New York Times
December 22, 2008

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2008 ScienceSites 5/29/20 2008 ScienceSites 5/29/20

Malice Aforethought

– The Economist
December 18, 2008

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2008 ScienceSites 5/28/20 2008 ScienceSites 5/28/20

Can a Robot, an Insect or God Be Aware?

– Scientific American
June 24, 2008

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2007 ScienceSites 5/28/20 2007 ScienceSites 5/28/20

What Does It Mean to Have a Mind? Maybe More Than You Think

– Harvard Gazette
February 8, 2007

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