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Kurt Gray is a social psychologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in moral psychology and mind perception.
Known for: The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
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The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
The Mind Club explores how humans perceive the minds of others, animals, machines, and even the dead. Wegner and Gray examine the psychological and philosophical foundations of empathy, morality, and consciousness, revealing how our judgments about who has a mind shape our social and ethical behavior.
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The Mind Club: The Invisible Society of Minds
Imagine walking into a room filled with people, pets, and machines. Without realizing it, you begin sorting them into categories: who can feel pain, who can make decisions, who deserves respect, and who is just an object. That mental sorting is the membership process of the Mind Club. Daniel Wegner ...
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Agency and Experience: The Two Dimensions of Mind
We discovered through years of research that people perceive minds along two fundamental dimensions: agency and experience. Agency is the capacity to act, choose, and plan; experience is the capacity to feel and suffer. Every entity—from a human being to a dog or a robot—is judged based on these two...
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About Kurt Gray
Kurt Gray is a social psychologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in moral psychology and mind perception.
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