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This paper provides a good, short summary of the lab's work on morality:

Schein, C., Goranson, A., & Gray, K. (2015). The uncensored truth about morality. The Psychologist, 28, 982-985.

Refereed Papers

 

Gray, K., Anderson, S., Chen, E. E., Kelly, J. M., Christian, M. S., Patrick, J., Huang, L., Kenett, Y. N., Lewis, K. (in press). “Forward Flow”: A new measure to quantify free thought and predict creativity. American Psychologist.

Bigman, Y. & Gray, K. (in press). People are averse to machines making moral decisions. Cognition.

Tang, S. & Gray, K. (in press). CEOs imbue organizations with feelings, increasing punishment satisfaction and apology effectiveness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Jackson, J. C. & Gray, K. (in press). When a good God makes bad people: Testing a theory of religion and immorality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Yam, K. C., Fehr, R., Burch, T., Zhang, Y. & Gray, K. (in press). Would I really make a difference? Moral Typecasting Theory and its implications for helping ethical leaders. Journal of Business Ethics.

Cheung, E. C., Bera, A., Kubin, E., Gray, K., & Manocha, D. (in press). Identifying driver behaviors using trajectory features for vehicle navigation. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

Bera, A., Randhavane, T., Kubin, E. Wang, A., Gray, K. & Manocha, D. (in press). Classifying group emotions for socially-aware autonomous vehicle navigation. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops.

Jackson, J. C., Hester, N. & Gray, K. (2018). The faces of God in America: Revealing religious diversity across people and politics. PLOS One, 13: e0198745.

Waytz, A. & Gray, K. (2018). Does online technology make us more or less sociable? A preliminary review and call for research. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 473-491.

Brink, K. A., Gray, K. & Wellman, H. M. (2018). Creepiness creeps in: Uncanny valley feelings are acquired in childhood. Child Development.

Gray, K., Anderson, S., Doyle, C. M., Hester, N, Schmitt, P., Vonasch, A†, Allison, S., & Jackson., J. (2018). To be immortal, do good or evil. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 44, 868-880.

Hester, N. & Gray, K. (2018). For Black men, being tall increases threat stereotyping and police stops. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Schein, C. & Gray, K. (2018). The Theory of Dyadic Morality: Reinventing moral judgments by redefining harm. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 22(1), 32-70.

Gray, K., Schein, C. & Cameron C. D. (2017). How to think about emotion and morality: Circles, not arrows. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 41-46.

Goranson, A., Ritter, R. S., Waytz, A., Norton, M. I., & Gray, K. (2017). Dying is unexpectedly positive. Psychological Science, 28(7), 988-999.

Schroeder, J., Fishbach, A., Schein, C., Gray, K. (2017). Functional intimacy: Needing—but not wanting—the touch of a stranger. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113(6), 910-924.

Cooley, E., Payne, B. K., Cipolli, W., Cameron, C. D., Berger, A., Gray, K. (2017). The paradox of group mind: “People in a group” have more mind than “a group of people.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(5), 691-699.

Gray, K. (2017). How to map theory: Reliable methods are fruitless without rigorous theory. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(5), 731-741. Theory Mapping website

Jackson, J. C., Rand, D. G., Lewis, K., Norton, M. I., & Gray, K. (2017). Agent-based modeling: A guide for social psychologists. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(4), 387-395.

Ben, B., Hester, N., Penn, D. L, & Gray, K. (2017). Differential patterns in mind perception in subclinical paranoia: relationships to self-reported empathy. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 22(2), 137-144

Schein, C., Ritter, R. S., & Gray, K. (2016). Harm mediates the disgust-immorality link. Emotion, 16, 862-876.

Gray, K. & Schein, C. (2016). No absolutism here: Harm predicts moral judgment 30x better than disgust—Commentary on Scott, Inbar & Rozin (2016). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 325-329.

Galak, J., Gray, K., Elbert, I., & Strohminger, N. (2016). Trickle-down preferences: Preferential conformity to high status peers in fashion choices. PLoS One, 11, e0153448.

Strohminger, N., Gray K., Chituc, V., Heffner, J., Schein, C., Heagins, T. B., (2016). The MR2: A multi-racial, mega-resolution database of facial stimuli. Behavior Research Methods, 48. 1179-1204.

Schein, C., Hester, N. & Gray, K. (2016). The visual guide to morality: Vision as an integrative analogy for moral experience, variability and mechanism. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 10, 231-251.

Schein, C. & Gray, K. (2016). Moralization and harmification:  The dyadic loop explains how the innocuous becomes harmful and wrong. Psychological Inquiry, 27, 62-65.

Schein, C. & Gray, K. (2015). The eyes are the window to the uncanny valley: Mind perception, autism and missing souls. Interaction studies, 16, 173-179.

Schein, C., Goranson, A., & Gray, K. (2015). The uncensored truth about morality. The Psychologist, 28, 982-985.

Cameron, C. D., Lindquist, K. A., & Gray, K. (2015). A constructionist review of morality and emotions: No evidence for specific relationships between moral content and discrete emotions. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19, 371-394.

Gray, K. & Keeney, J. E. (2015). Impure, or just weird? Scenario sampling bias raises questions about the foundation of morality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 859-868.

Gray, K. & Keeney, J. E. (2015). Disconfirming moral foundations theory on its own terms: Reply to Graham (2015). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 874-877.

Schein, C. & Gray, K. (2015). The unifying moral dyad: Liberals and conservatives share the same harm-based moral template. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1147-1163.

Gray, K.*, Schein, C.*, & Ward. A. F. (2014). The myth of harmless wrongs in moral cognition: Automatic dyadic completion from sin to suffering. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1600-1615.

Gray. K., Schmitt, P., Strohminger, N. & Kassam, K. S. (2014). The science of style: In fashion, colors should match only moderately. PLoS One, 9: e102772.

Gray. K. (2014). Harm predicts judgments of suicide: Comment on Rottman, Kelemen, and Young (2014). Cognition, 130, 217-226.

Schein, C. & Gray, K. (2014) The prototype model of blame: Freeing moral cognition from linearity and little boxes. Psychological Inquiry, 25, 236-240.

Gray, K.*, Rand, D. G.*, Eyal, E., Lewis, K., Hershman, S. & Norton, M. I. (2014). The emergence of “Us and Them” in 80 lines of code: Modeling group genesis in homogeneous populations. Psychological Science, 25, 982-990. (online demo)


Lewis, K., Gray, K. & Meierhenrich, J. (2014). The structure of online activism. Sociological Science, 1, 1-9 .

Gray, K. & Ward, A. F. & Norton, M. I. (2014). Paying it forward: Generalized reciprocity and the limits of generosity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 247-254.

Leimgruber, K. L., Ward, A. F., Widness, J., Norton, M. I., Olson, K. R., Gray, K., Santos, L. R., (2014). Give what you get: Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-year-old children pay forward positive and negative outcomes to conspecifics. PLoS One, 9: e87035.

Gray, K. & Wegner, D. M. (2013). Six guidelines for interesting research. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8, 549-553.

Gray, K. & Schein, C. (2012). Two minds vs. two philosophies: Mind perception defines morality and dissolves the debate between deontology and utilitarianism. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 3, 405-423.

Gray, K. & Wegner, D. M. (2012). Feeling robots and human zombies: Mind perception and the uncanny valley. Cognition, 125, 125-130.

Gray, K. (2012). The power of good intentions: Perceived benevolence soothes pain, increases pleasure, and improves taste. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(5), 639-645.

Gray, K., Young, L., Waytz, A. (2012). Mind perception is the essence of morality. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 101-124. [target article] *Winner of the Daniel M. Wegner SPSP Theoretical Innovation Award.

Gray, K., Waytz, A., Young, L. (2012). The moral dyad: A fundamental template unifying moral judgment. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 206-215. [reply to commentaries]

Cushman, F., Gray, K., Gaffey, A. & Mendes, W. B. (2012). Simulating murder: The aversion to harmful actions. Emotion, 12(1), 2-7.

Gray, K., Knobe, J., Sheskin, M., Bloom. P. & Barrett, L. F. (2011). More than a body: Mind perception and the nature of objectification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(6), 1207-1220.

Gray, K., Knickman, T. A. & Wegner, D. M. (2011). More dead than dead: Perceptions of persons in the persistent vegetative state. Cognition, 121, 275-280.

Gray, K. & Wegner, D. M. (2011). Dimensions of moral emotions. Emotion Review, 3(3), 258-260.

Gray, K. & Wegner, D. M. (2011). To escape blame, don't be a hero - be a victim. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 516-519.

Gray, K., Jenkins A. C., Heberlein A. H. & Wegner, D. M. (2011). Distortions of mind perception in psychopathology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(2), 477-479.

Gray, K. (2010). Moral transformation: Good and evil turn the weak into the mighty. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(3), 253-258.

Waytz, A., Gray, K., Epley, N., & Wegner, D. M. (2010). Causes and consequences of mind perception. Trends in Cognitive Science, 14, 383-388.

Gray, K. & Wegner, D. M. (2010). Blaming God for our pain: Human suffering and the divine mind. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14(1), 7-16.

Gray, K. & Wegner, D. M. (2010). Torture and judgments of guilt. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(1), 233-235.

Gray, K. & Wegner, D. M. (2009). Moral typecasting: Divergent perceptions of moral agents and     moral patients. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(3), 505-520.

Gray, K. & Wegner, D. M. (2008). The sting of intentional pain. Psychological Science, 19, 1260-62.

Gray, H. M., Gray, K. & Wegner, D. M. (2007). Dimensions of mind perception, Science, 315, 619.