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Prof: Social psych of moral divides, AI, religion. Director: ; ; Newsletter: .

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Kurt Gray

5 months

🚨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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2 years

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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2 years

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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3 years

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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2 years

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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3 years

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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3 years

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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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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4 years

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.

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4 years

When you collect a ton of cool new data but have no idea how to analyze it

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4 years

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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3 years

R3: “this is perhaps the worst form of scholarship out there.” Thank you, thank you very much 🙏 🙏

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3 years

What you paper looks like after you address all reviewer/editor comments 🤣

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2 years

Psychology is great because you start out thinking you’re gonna solve social problems & reveal the inner mind, and then you end up arguing about what’s the right N for asking random internet people to imagine hypothetical scenarios.

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Philosophy is great because you start out thinking you're gonna answer all the hard questions and you end up thinking you can't even ask them.

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3 years

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"

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PSA: Authorship is the most important thing we can give in science. It's very cheap If it's ambiguous whether someone deserves authorship, make them an author Pros: helping people and making everyone feel valued. Cons: "dilution"--not a real thing 1/n (two personal stories👇)

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@mwkraus I read this as “I’m an appealing person with many fine traits” and I thought “damn straight”. But now I realize what’s actually going on. (Nice!). But don’t forget my initial interpretation is also true ☺️

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4 years

One important/odd writing tip that I swear by: Write *before* reading. Let me explain 👇🏽

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3 years

When reviewers 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 all hate the paper but it still gets published.

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2 years

"Purity is the worst concept in moral psychology" -A famous moral psychologist. We did a (now published) open-access review to test whether this is true. Turns out it is. Purity a *very* messy concept. This really matters for modern moral psychology. 🧵

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2 years

Instead, we need to imagine what it's like for the person reading our paper, or scanning titles, or the editor reading our revision. And if you take their perspective, you'll realize that we assume way too much common knowledge.

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4 years

In 2020, I read 4-6 books a night for a total of *2000* book readings. How did I do it? Easy: Kids gave me the same 4-6 books to read everyday at bedtime. So actually, I only read 6 books. And they all have pictures of talking animals and obvious morals.

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4 years

It is literally impossible to start real work until you have had a coffee, a snack, tidied up a bit, checked social media, harassed the cat a bit, refilled your coffee, adjusted your desk chair, perused email, the news, and then checked social media again.

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4 years

Research is clear: when people feel victimized, they believe themselves to be beyond blame. In human minds, victims are *targets* of harm, and so seem incapable of *doing* harm. Doesn't matter if you aren't actually victimized. If you think you have suffered, it licenses violence

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"The riot shows that feelings of victimhood have real, even dire, political consequences." Learn how the #psychology of victimhood stoked the fires of last week's Capitol riot (via @MilesArmaly , Adam Enders & @washingtonpost ) 👇

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3 years

We need to stop calling trips to relatives (esp with young kids) a "vacation." Sets up all the wrong expectations.

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3 years

Imagine you make dinner every night. Most nights, someone comes over and throws it in the trash. The few nights you do eat, it's after re-making the recipe so many times that, by the time you finish, it's 1am and you're not hungry anymore. Welcome to publishing in academia.

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2 years

Out today in @NatureHumBehav "Interventions to Reduce Partisan Animosity." With 200 citations, it reviews/connects every known intervention, arguing that reducing animosity requires us to "TRI" change Thoughts, build Relationships, transform Institutions

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Interventions to reduce partisan animosity

Nature Human Behaviour - Rachel Hartman and colleagues review interventions designed to reduce partisan animosity in the United States and introduce a framework to categorize interventions across...

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5 years

When you’ve got an amazing theory but the data doesn’t support it.

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Kurt Gray

3 years

🚨New Preprint!🚨 Supernatural Explanations Across the Globe Are More Common for Natural Than Social Phenomena. A huge study of religious explanations around world suggests that belief emerged to explain the natural world, not for social control. 1/n

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3 years

My daughter called question marks “little mysteries” and that’s what I’m calling them forever.

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6 years

MTurk may be contaminated! Bots are filling out psychology surveys. Apparently you can tell by repeating GPS coordinates. These researchers are looking into it, and you can report anything fishy at:

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2 years

The main ways to get theory of mind are 1. One clear narrative idea in a paper 2. Explicit linking theory/studies to narrative 3. Explaining how your choices make sense given narrative (why this theory, why this study, why this story)

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4 years

My wife is looking fancy and sounding smart, giving an academic talk at @DukeU . Meanwhile, 10 ft away, I’m eating soup in sweatpants. The pandemic is weird.

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4 years

I ❤️ Twitter for celebrating ppl’s wins, but remember that’s the tip of the iceberg—an iceberg made mostly of failure. Today I got my unmpteenth rejection in a row. All I could do: eat chocolate, play video games & be grateful for this lovely Twitter community for distracting me.

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4 years

Some advice for job talks. You can't simply stitch together 3 15-min talks. You need to tell a single story that you explicitly reiterate as you go through your data. Thread:

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3 years

Got a book deal yesterday(!) Told my mom. Her first question: Can I portal with the grand-kids this weekend? 🙄🤣

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2 years

When writing up studies, you have to make it explicitly clear why the study matters, how it connects to your hypothesis, and why it's the obvious best choice to test these ideas.

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3 years

Cool paper by @Ivuoma Dominant groups accused of discrim. invoke "digressive victimhood:" Not directly competing injustice, but instead about a different topic. Accused of homophobia? Invoke religious liberty. Racism? Free speech. Victimhood is flexible

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6 years

MTurk Bot-gate 2018, Update: Apparently the mTurk bots are humans, NOT bots. They are shady mTurkers who use server farms to conceal their identity and crack through surveys. Sean Dennis's working paper below spells out the problem--and how to fix it.

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2 years

Getting old sucks but I'll always have a gmail address with no numbers it. Kids these days can't say that.

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4 years

Thanks 2020: Just shared the dropbox link to tomorrow's exam with ALL THE ANSWERS to the whole class.

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4 years

Academic pro-tip: Spend more time writing the abstract. Time spent: Data collection: years Writing up main paper: months Abstract: an hour? It’s often the *only* thing that gets read. Make it more than a dull and choppy summary. Try to make it sing!

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2 years

🚨The Problem of Purity in Moral Psychology🚨, accepted at PSPR. Purity revolutionized moral psych, but what is purity!? Is purity about ✝️,💩,🍦,🍆,or🐔🍆?! We find *9 kinds* of purity. We show why purity is so diverse & why that's a big problem Paper:

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4 years

She won't brag so I will: @ka_lindquist just got two grants, NIH R01 + NSF! Awesome to share a department with (and be married to) such a badass scientist. 🤩🎉🔥🔥

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2 years

That feeling when you thought your research idea was too weird to get scooped…but it still gets scooped.

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2 years

We assume that someone else knows more about your theories/studies/phenomena than they do. I've published a bunch of papers on morality, but every single time, I have to cover the basic stuff and situate my work in the current paradigm. Every single time.

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3 years

No matter how busy professors are, we always have time to talk to keen students about science/ideas/theory. That's why we got into this business! It's the students that make this job rewarding.😊

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2 years

Administrators: We are looking for faculty volunteers for a very exciting committee. Faculty:

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4 years

Our *COVID Threat Scale* is now in press at SPPS. Ten items, two kinds of perceived threat. Predicts adherence to public health recommendations + more.

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4 years

Pro tip from an associate editor. It takes AEs a long time to find reviewers. For a faster review process list potential reviewers who might *actually* say yes (e.g. ECRs, ppl at smaller schools) Yes, I know Daniel Kahneman is an expert in your field. No, he will not review it

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5 years

Starting a new Center for the Science of Moral Understanding. Will be giving away $300,000 next year for studies that address polarization/intolerance. @ckochfoundation recognizing the power of social science (esp social/moral psych!) to help people

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3 years

Famous professors are usually much shorter than you expect.

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4 years

Academics: I spent 7 years on this paper and it's lovely and I really really want it to be perfect and get accepted. Also academics: I can't bear to look at this paper for even one more second, so let's just submit it and forget about it.

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5 years

Eating lunch, overhearing the college student behind me being active-listening-AF with his friend: “That sounds really frustrating. You’re doing a great job hanging in there. What do you think might help?” #hopefortheunderratedyouth #MillennialsFTW

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3 years

The best medicine is...stories. One session of storytelling increases oxytocin and positive emotions, and decreases cortisol and pain, in *hospitalized children.* More evidence that our minds are fine-tuned for narratives. In @PNASNews

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Storytelling increases oxytocin and positive emotions and decreases cortisol and pain in hospital...

Storytelling is a distinctive human characteristic that may have played a fundamental role in humans’ ability to bond and navigate challenging soci...

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3 years

I don’t care if you are -Crushing writing -Teaching fantastically -Reading a ton -Slamming admin work When you have to go potty you STOP 🛑 and go right away.

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5 years

Spent 3 hours today learning R. Only managed to open a file and run correlations. Please someone remind me it’s worth it to leave behind SPSS.

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7 months

Real world debates are not about "foundations" of liberty or fairness. They are about *victims*--who is most vulnerable to mistreatment. Cops? Black people? Fetuses? 8 studies show moral debates are explained by diff "assumptions of vulnerability" (AoVs) btw libs and cons.

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2 years

Moral Psychology People! I'm teaching a moral psych grad class and want some cool papers to teach my students. What's your favorite new-ish (or old-ish but under-rated) paper? Thank you!!

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3 years

Thinking of students on the job market: it's so crazy how powerfully someone's entire life is shaped by the capricious decisions of a search committee.

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2 years

I can only find typos after it's under review.🙄

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3 years

You are not an incomplete person if you don't have hobbies.

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3 years

Excited to announce that we are moving to the University of Arendelle. We’ll be recruiting students to study emotion regulation/icy blasts, sibling dynamics/icy blasts, self-expression/icy blasts, & autonomous snow agents. Salary is lower but great fjords and friendly reindeer.

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3 years

Officially signed my author contract with @PantheonBooks . 🎉 Writing about morality, human nature, harm, politics, victimhood, kids, work, relationships Covering new science & overturning common wisdom, w practical tips for life (Now I just have to write it!) Also, thanks👇

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3 years

When the data don’t come out but they argue that the theory is still true.

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5 years

New tactic for dealing with predatory journals: ask them for 💰 to join their board! 🤣

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2 years

Bedtime, dark room, noise machine on. Me: (sings lullaby) Me: good night kiddo 5yo: good night daddy Me:… 5yo:… Me:… 5yo:… Me: (slowly sneaking out of the room) 5yo: (sits bolt upright) daddy, if a cobra bit itself would it die!? 😩

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4 years

I once ran a very expensive study with a one-time-only, hard-to-get sample. I forgot to put in questions to assess the main DV. Totally unusable. Big dumb mistakes are part of the process--evidence that you are doing important enough science that you can make a BIG mistake.

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1 year

In at JPSP, a multi-study paper on the function of morality "Generalized morality," the idea that other people are overall good/evil, is *not* universal Ideas of inner good/evil culturally evolved to simplify cooperative partner choice in big societies

Generalized Morality Culturally Evolves as an Adaptive Heuristic in Large Social Networks

Why do people assume that a generous person should also be honest? Why do we even use words like “moral” and “immoral”? We explore these questions with a new model of how people perceive moral...

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2 years

One way to help making things explicit for studies is to think about (and sometimes write) counter-factuals: e.g., there's lots of potential ways to test this idea, but the way we did it is the best for these reasons...

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4 years

There's a lot of pressure in academia to stay in academia. But advisors, like parents, just want you to be happy/fulfilled/successful. Proud of @ChelseaSchein for landing an awesome consulting job--still doing solid science, plus now with immediate real world impact.

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Back home safe and sound with our kiddos (who know nothing of consequence about it all). My first grader’s first day of school was “amazing”, just as it should be. ❤️

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3 years

Just want to amplify this. In my experience as an editor, grad students and post docs often give the very *best* reviews. They are thoughtful, generous, and actually know the recent literature. So editors: invite ECRs! And ECRs...you are definitely qualified!

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This is a good journal. Can I really do this? 🥶

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My recent experience = academia in a nutshell: Journal #1 : Reject! J #2 : Reject! J #3 : Reject! J #4 : Maybe not reject. J #4 : Could still reject. J #4 : *long silence* Corporate publisher: Sign the damn copyright forms! (I guess it's in?) J #4 : btw, it's in J #4 : now review for us

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2 years

What is theory of mind? It's understanding what's going on in the mind of other people. It's hard to know what others are thinking because other minds are ultimately inaccessible. You can't know if your blue is someone else's blue.

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6 years

Kahneman and Tversky? Find yourself a collaborator who supports you like this, so you can accomplish incredible things.

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3 years

Everyone knows that having kids costs $$$. But consider how they *save* $$$. You stop buying anything nice because you know they will just destroy it.

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2 years

That feeling when your paper is finally accepted after 14 rejections.

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4 years

Proud of @samabramspsych for this lovely new Current Opinions in Psychology paper (w @josh_c_jackson ). Gist: The debate about whether God makes you good or bad is too simple. Instead, there are *3* ways that religion impacts morality--a new trinity.

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3 years

When your lab asks you tough questions during a practice talk

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5 years

Old lady names are back! How do we know? See my recent collaboration with @ka_lindquist : Ida Ellen was born today. She was named after our inspiring grandmothers.

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3 years

For worried students newly admitted to grad school: remember, science is something you do, not some inner essence of a person. When I showed up at grad school, I didn’t feel like I belonged or knew anything, but I kept running studies/learning & eventually figured some of it out.

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4 years

Interesting experience: was on a zoom call and *every* time I tried to talk, female graduate students interrupted and talked over me. Turns out I was accidentally muted, but it was an amazing role reversal that showed just how much I take for granted.

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4 years

Just heard from @ckochfoundation that the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding is receiving $1.7M to continue to catalyze research into bridging moral/political divides. Stay tuned for funding opps, including a new multi post-doc initiative.

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Center for the Science of Moral Understanding

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4 years

What a great night’s rest. Enthusiastic to do productive things today like check my phone every 14 seconds.

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2 years

When you add machine learning analyses just to look cool:

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3 years

Pre-pandemic parenting: Screen-time is the devil. Pandemic parenting: Screen-time is the way and the truth and the life.

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Q: what’s it feel like when you finally find your paper-writing groove? A:

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2 years

Out today! Our @NatRevPsych ! I love everything about this paper except that they made us use British spelling for everything. I apologise, but the figs are colourful, we analyse litres of research, and it should help centre the field of moutives and mourality.

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'How inferred motives shape moral judgements', a Review by Ryan W. Carlson, Yochanan E. Bigman, Kurt Gray, Melissa J. Ferguson & M. J. Crockett @mollycrockett @kurtjgray @carlsonr_ @yo_bigman

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Pro-dad move: Agreeing to skype w a reporter at 8pm on Friday, not realizing it was TV, not radio. Then doing the interview crouched on the floor behind a bed so you don't wake up your toddler. (then going back to watching the Great British Baking Show)

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2 years

Why do faculty and grad students fail to empathize with each other? Easy to be glib/dismissive, but it's worth authentically considering their different experiences. IMO, they focus on fundamentally concerns; once you understand these, it's easier to empathize 🧵

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Not wanting to say someone's name just in case you get it wrong even though you're 99.9% sure that you'll get it right? Is there a word (probably in German) for this feeling? Or am I alone in feeling this?

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2 years

Ten years ago today I got married to @ka_lindquist . Best thing I ever did. Here’s to many more years of constructing our life together and nurturing our dyad 🥂

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7 years

Who is stopped-and-frisked? 5′4′′: 4.5 Black men : 1 White man 6′4": 6.2 Black men : 1 White man Being tall is great for White men. For Black men, it means seeming more threatening, and more police stops. @PNASNews

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Congrats to @ka_lindquist , who today is both a Full Professor, and the Director of the @UNCPsych 's Social Psychology Program (aka my boss). 👏👏 Also, she became Full Prof a full 2 years faster than I managed to do it (always good to flatter people in power).

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Me last month: Commit to a zillion things. I’ll have lots of time later. Me now:

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5 years

Parents, this is uncomfortably real

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2 years

Because it's hard to guess what others are thinking, when we write manuscripts, craft titles, put together revision letters, we just focus on what we want to say. And leave it up to the reader to figure it out. But this is the wrong way to think about it.

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Kurt Gray

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New moral psych paper in press @ JPSP The Affective Harm Account (AHA!) redefines harm and affect/disgust 3 findings challenge past wisdom: 1. Harm & affect are intertwined 2. Harm predicts all morality (even purity) & often drives affect 3. Gut feelings: not super important 🧵

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Kurt Gray

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Theory of mind also matters for titles. When people are looking for papers, they are looking for something that says something that *they* want to say, so make it clear what the paper finds and why it's useful to them.

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