Kurt Gray

16.6k total citations · 11 hit papers
136 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Kurt Gray is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt Gray has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Social Psychology, 75 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 65 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Kurt Gray's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (69 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (35 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (27 papers). Kurt Gray is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (69 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (35 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (27 papers). Kurt Gray collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Singapore. Kurt Gray's co-authors include Daniel M. Wegner, Adam Waytz, Chelsea Schein, Heather M. Gray, Yochanan Bigman, Liane Young, Nicholas Epley, Jesse Graham, Kai Chi Yam and Adrian F. Ward and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Kurt Gray

129 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Dimensions of Mind Perception

2007 1.4k citations Kurt Gray et al. profile →
Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality

2012 609 citations Kurt Gray, Adam Waytz et al. profile →
Feeling robots and human zombies: Mind perception and the uncanny valley

2012 591 citations Kurt Gray et al. Cognition profile →
Causes and consequences of mind perception

2010 505 citations Adam Waytz, Kurt Gray et al. profile →
People are averse to machines making moral decisions

2018 381 citations Yochanan Bigman, Kurt Gray Cognition profile →
The Theory of Dyadic Morality: Reinventing Moral Judgment by Redefining Harm

2017 362 citations Chelsea Schein, Kurt Gray profile →
Atlas of Moral Psychology

2018 250 citations Kurt Gray et al. profile →
Robots at work: People prefer—and forgive—service robots with perceived feelings.

2020 213 citations Kai Chi Yam, Yochanan Bigman et al. Journal of Applied Psychology profile →
Can AI language models replace human participants?

2023 177 citations Niket Tandon, Kurt Gray et al. profile →
The rise of robots increases job insecurity and maladaptive workplace behaviors: Multimethod evidence.

2022 152 citations Kai Chi Yam, Pok Man Tang et al. Journal of Applied Psychology profile →
Interventions to reduce partisan animosity

2022 91 citations Rachel Hartman, Kurt Gray et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kurt Gray United States	44	4.8k	4.7k	3.6k	1.5k	1.4k	136	9.5k
Adam Waytz United States	38	3.5k 0.7×	4.9k 1.1×	3.7k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	75	10.1k
Bertram F. Malle United States	44	3.5k 0.7×	4.6k 1.0×	4.7k 1.3×	760 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	131	9.8k
Jesse Graham United States	36	5.0k 1.1×	5.0k 1.1×	6.7k 1.8×	540 0.4×	573 0.4×	84	11.2k
Nicholas Epley United States	51	3.5k 0.7×	5.5k 1.2×	4.7k 1.3×	2.3k 1.5×	1.6k 1.1×	105	13.4k
Azim Shariff United States	37	2.5k 0.5×	2.9k 0.6×	3.6k 1.0×	466 0.3×	1.6k 1.2×	86	7.8k
Joshua Knobe United States	47	5.1k 1.1×	2.8k 0.6×	2.7k 0.7×	320 0.2×	477 0.3×	134	7.7k
Amy J. C. Cuddy United States	24	2.4k 0.5×	5.7k 1.2×	8.4k 2.3×	600 0.4×	704 0.5×	34	13.8k
Gerben A. van Kleef Netherlands	60	1.7k 0.4×	6.7k 1.4×	6.2k 1.7×	411 0.3×	1.0k 0.8×	192	12.3k
Michael D. Buhrmester United Kingdom	23	1.5k 0.3×	3.5k 0.7×	5.1k 1.4×	511 0.3×	574 0.4×	33	10.7k
Joshua D. Greene United States	37	9.4k 2.0×	5.5k 1.2×	3.9k 1.1×	222 0.1×	1.8k 1.3×	71	12.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kurt Gray

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Tandon, Niket, et al.. (2025). AI language model rivals expert ethicist in perceived moral expertise. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 4084–4084. 8 indexed citations

Rathje, Steve, Clara Pretus, Jon Roozenbeek, et al.. (2025). Unfollowing hyperpartisan social media influencers durably reduces out-party animosity. 1 indexed citations

Gray, Kurt, et al.. (2024). The existence of manual mode increases human blame for AI mistakes. Cognition. 252. 105931–105931. 4 indexed citations

Gray, Kurt, et al.. (2024). Morality in Our Mind and Across Cultures and Politics. Annual Review of Psychology. 76(1). 663–691. 5 indexed citations

Puryear, Curtis & Kurt Gray. (2024). Using “balanced pragmatism” in political discussions increases cross-partisan respect.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 153(5). 1189–1212. 1 indexed citations

Jackson, Joshua Conrad, et al.. (2023). Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(5). 707–717. 9 indexed citations

Kubin, Emily, Kurt Gray, & Christian von Sikorski. (2023). Reducing Political Dehumanization by Pairing Facts With Personal Experiences. Political Psychology. 44(5). 1119–1140. 15 indexed citations

Yam, Kai Chi, Tiffany C. Y. Tan, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Azim Shariff, & Kurt Gray. (2023). Cultural Differences in People's Reactions and Applications of Robots, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence. Management and Organization Review. 19(5). 859–875. 40 indexed citations

Carlson, Ryan W., Yochanan Bigman, Kurt Gray, Melissa J. Ferguson, & Molly J. Crockett. (2022). How inferred motives shape moral judgements. Nature Reviews Psychology. 1(8). 468–478. 26 indexed citations

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Kubin, Emily, Frank Kachanoff, & Kurt Gray. (2022). Threat Rejection Fuels Political Dehumanization. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 14(5). 487–500. 3 indexed citations

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Bigman, Yochanan, et al.. (2022). Algorithmic discrimination causes less moral outrage than human discrimination.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(1). 4–27. 95 indexed citations

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Hartman, Rachel, Neil Hester, & Kurt Gray. (2022). People See Political Opponents as More Stupid Than Evil. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 49(7). 1014–1027. 18 indexed citations

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Gray, Kurt, Jennifer K. MacCormack, Teague R. Henry, et al.. (2022). The affective harm account (AHA) of moral judgment: Reconciling cognition and affect, dyadic morality and disgust, harm and purity.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 123(6). 1199–1222. 20 indexed citations

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Yam, Kai Chi, Yochanan Bigman, & Kurt Gray. (2021). Reducing the uncanny valley by dehumanizing humanoid robots. Computers in Human Behavior. 125. 106945–106945. 76 indexed citations

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Hester, Neil & Kurt Gray. (2020). The Moral Psychology of Raceless, Genderless Strangers. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 15(2). 216–230. 77 indexed citations

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Yam, Kai Chi, Yochanan Bigman, Pok Man Tang, et al.. (2020). Robots at work: People prefer—and forgive—service robots with perceived feelings.. Journal of Applied Psychology. 106(10). 1557–1572. 213 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kachanoff, Frank, Yochanan Bigman, Kyra Kapsaskis, & Kurt Gray. (2020). Measuring Realistic and Symbolic Threats of COVID-19 and Their Unique Impacts on Well-Being and Adherence to Public Health Behaviors. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 12(5). 603–616. 101 indexed citations

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Hester, Neil & Kurt Gray. (2018). For Black men, being tall increases threat stereotyping and police stops. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(11). 2711–2715. 58 indexed citations

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Jackson, Joshua Conrad, Neil Hester, & Kurt Gray. (2018). The faces of God in America: Revealing religious diversity across people and politics. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0198745–e0198745. 22 indexed citations

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Jackson, Joshua Conrad, David G. Rand, Kevin Lewis, Michael I. Norton, & Kurt Gray. (2016). Agent Based Modeling: A Guide for Social Psychologists. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 1 indexed citations

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