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Kurt Gray
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Prof: Social psych of moral divides, AI, religion. Director: deepestbeliefslab.com; moralunderstanding.com; Newsletter: bit.ly/3T3cKrj.
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    Kurt Gray
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    May 23, 2024
    🚨Book!🚨 "Outraged: Why We Fight about Morality and Politics" has an Amazon listing: "A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us"
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    Kurt Gray
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    Jul 1, 2022
    This week I officially became a full professor and just hit my 100th paper.🥳 My one piece of advice for success with papers: more theory of mind. Let me explain. 🧵
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    Kurt Gray
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    Aug 18, 2022
    What is science? 🤔 1) High schoolers: "the hypothetico-deductive method" 2) College grads: "how society builds collective knowledge about the natural world" 3) Grad students and professors: 👇
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    Kurt Gray
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    Mar 9, 2022
    Universities: We are broke and have absolutely no money for raises or stipend increases. Sorry. 😭 Also Universities: Check out our 4 new million dollar initiatives that each require 18 new deans. 🥳
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    Kurt Gray
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    Jan 24, 2023
    Life can feel meaningless. We wondered if the timeless "hero's journey" can help. 8 studies in JPSP show that seeing your life story as a hero's journey increases meaning in life. This paper also reformulates the hero's journey into 7 key steps that apply to modern life. 🧵
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    Kurt Gray
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    Mar 29, 2022
    Promoted to full professor! Though I'm embarrassed at the over-the-top enthusiasm from this notification email: "Greetings. We need your signature on a pdf." 🤣
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    Kurt Gray
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    Feb 25, 2022
    Pro-tip: Professors forget. Don't feel bad about sending them reminders about submitting stuff for you (e.g., rec letters). I would much rather get a "Hey, remember to submit this!" than be responsible for a student not getting the award/acceptance/grant they deserve!
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    Kurt Gray
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    May 10, 2023
    We gave GPT 464 moral scenarios from past papers, and asked it to make moral judgments--they correlated .95 with human ratings Because GPT (almost) perfectly captures human judgment, we wondered: can AI LLMs replace participants in the study of the mind? New at @TrendsCognSci
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    Kurt Gray
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    Jan 25, 2021
    Our new paper at @PNASNews. 15 studies show that we misunderstand how to bridge divides. We think that using facts in political/moral discussion should foster respect. But it's personal experiences (esp about harm) that best bridge divides. Thread. pnas.org/content/118/6/…
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    Kurt Gray
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    Aug 7, 2020
    When you collect a ton of cool new data but have no idea how to analyze it
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    Kurt Gray
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    Apr 16, 2021
    When I was a grad student I couldn't believe how my advisor never remembered what we were doing from one week to the next. I swore I would be different. Fast forward...I have absolutely no idea what's my students are doing from one week to the next.😩
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    Kurt Gray
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    Sep 28, 2021
    R3: “this is perhaps the worst form of scholarship out there.” Thank you, thank you very much 🙏 🙏
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    Kurt Gray
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    Jan 21, 2022
    What you paper looks like after you address all reviewer/editor comments 🤣
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    Kurt Gray
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    Jan 31, 2022
    You got an R & R (hurray!) but now must RESPOND TO REVIEWERS😱 My handy heuristic of 3 A's 1. Affirm: "wow, great points" (recognize all that's good) 2. Assert: "but it's not such a big deal bc these 8 studies" (minimize severity) 3. Appease: "we still mostly did what you asked"