People

Director

Kurt Gray

is a Professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an expert in how to study people’s deepest beliefs and why they matter for society and organizations. He is also the Director of the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, which uses interdisciplinary science to bridge social divides. He grew up in Canada, completed his BSc at the University of Waterloo and his PhD at Harvard with the late Daniel Wegner. He was almost a geophysicist instead of a social psychologist, but a cold night stranded and stalked by lynx in Northern Alberta convinced him otherwise. He is married to a neuroscientist, together they have two daughters.

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Post-Doctoral Fellows

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Emily Kubin

Studies how people (and the media) can reduce negative perceptions of political opponents--focusing on interventions to bridge political divides.

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Graduate Students

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Danica Wilbanks

is a 3rd-year student who studies how social network structures impact affective polarization. She also investigates how religious beliefs change over time, and how people adapt to new technology.

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Madhulika Shastry

is a 1st-year student who studies how artificial intelligence and social media impact perceptions of moral responsibility, empathy, and victimization.

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Lab Managers

Sam Pratt

studies the dynamics of moral outrage as well as strategies to foster mutual understanding across moral divides.

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Helen Devine

studies how morality influences various factors within the legal system.

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Undergraduate Research Assistants

Kaylee Parish

Levin Low

Mariam Ehab

Nivedha Prathap

Sadej Singh

Siya Patel

Anton Cedergrund

Belinda Woodard, full-time RA

Ben Bramson

Dean Van Voorhis

Hanna Li

Jade Tsai, Honors Thesis student

 

Former Undergraduate Research Assistants

Francisco Ceccotti, Marcella Kingman, Fatima Alanis, Kyra Klemes, Maggie Wong, Athena Zhou, Arthi Annadurai, Idil Baran, Mike O’Brien, Kirti Nimmala, Anna Wei, Vishanth Palanivel, Yuyao Huang, Andrea Bermudez, Sruthi Mannepalli, Noor Ghoneim, Ellison Commodore, Blake Ryan, Sydney Hall, Matthew Davis, Andre Chiquito, Longjiao Li, Alex Stubblebine

Lab Alumni

Samantha Abrams (Amtrak) Connor O’Fallon (U.S. Census Bureau) Will Blakey (Stanford) Carlos Rebollar (NC State) Curtis Puryear (Northwestern University) Jake Womick (Cal State Bakersfield) Joshua Jackson (Northwestern University) Rachel Hartman (CloudResearch) Yochanan Bigman (Yale University)
Daryl Cameron (Penn State)
Cameron Doyle (Facebook)
Amelia Goranson (Knox College)
Neil Hester (McGill University)
John Michael Kelly (UC-Irvine)
Chelsea Schein (Wharton)
Mihai Sirbu (Capital One)
Andrew Vonasch (Canterbury)