Kurt Gray
Social psychologist and professor
Kurt Gray is a psychology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies morality and how people perceive minds. He co-wrote The Mind Club.
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Born in Canada
About Kurt Gray
Kurt Gray holds a professorship in psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He earned his PhD in social psychology at Harvard University. He directs the Deepest Beliefs Lab and the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding. His research looks at mind perception and at the psychology of morality, politics, religion and AI. He has published more than 120 scientific papers and has won awards including the Janet Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Research and the Theoretical Innovation Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Gray also wrote Outraged, a book about why people fight over morality and politics, and co-wrote The Mind Club with his mentor Dan Wegner. He was once headed toward a career in geophysics, but a night stranded in the Canadian wilderness changed his mind.