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A social psychologist and award-winning researcher who studies our deepest held beliefs and how to bridge the moral divides that drive conflict, intolerance, and outrage.

Author of the new book Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground

Director of the Deepest Beliefs Lab, which investigates people’s most important beliefs, including morality and religion, and how they impact society.

Founder and director of the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, providing new solutions for curing our political divisions, reducing intolerance, and fostering dialogue.

Outraged

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Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground

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.

In Outraged, Kurt Gray presents evidence that liberals and conservatives share the same moral mind—everyone’s moral judgments stem from feeling threatened or vulnerable to harm. Drawing on original research, Gray offers a new explanation for moral outrage and explores how to bridge divides.

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A riveting read on the roots of our bitterest conflicts—and the remedies for them. One of the leading lights in moral psychology overturns widespread assumptions about why we’re divided and reveals how we can come together

— Adam Grant, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Think Again

Important, timely and evidence-based, OUTRAGED will give you hope.

— Katy Milkman, best-selling author of How to Change

Feeling outraged? Read this book.

— Hahrie Han, author of Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

Kurt Gray is a social psychologist who studies morality, politics, and culture

Kurt Gray standing with one group to his left and one group to his right

He is the Weary Foundation Endowed Chair in the Social Psychology of Polarization and Misinformation at the Ohio State University, where he directs the Deepest Beliefs Lab Deepest Beliefs Lab logo and the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding.