@blakey_will

stanford psyc PhD // former post-bacc at UNC // interested in morality & political polarization // Big fan of reading books & the outdoors

 Bay Area, CA
willblakeysresearch.com/
Joined February 2013
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New in Nature Human Behaviour🚨🚨🚨 Partisan animosity gets in the way of friendships, family life, and healthy democratic functioning. The big question now is "how do we fix this problem?" We reviewed the literature of remedies to this problem, /1 nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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Kurt Gray@kurtjgray23 May 2024
🚨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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How many people go to church weekly? Surveys say it's about 1 in 5 Americans. Cell phone tracker data say it's actually closer to 1 in 20 Americans. Fascinating new working paper! nber.org/papers/w32334
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Kurt Gray@kurtjgray9 Apr 2024
🚨Job🚨 Come join the Deepest Beliefs Lab! We're hiring a full-time RA/outreach person. Perfect for a media-savvy graduating senior thinking about grad school. We have a great record of placing folks! bit.ly/3TU7ky2
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In a new @CognitionJourn paper with @AlexHwin @psywisdom we find that inviting people to explain contentious political issues promotes open-minded thinking. 🧵: 1/
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Sam Pratt@sampratt9923 Oct 2023
The Myopia of Heroism - new substack article on superheroes, the compulsion to save victims, and the moral psychology of collateral damage. With @kurtjgray and @blakey_will moralunderstanding.substack.…
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How genuine compassion for some may be driving conflict and suffering in the Middle East open.substack.com/pub/moralu…
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We (@kurtjgray and @sampratt99) discuss how our moral minds fixate on certain victims, blinding us to the suffering of others, and how understanding this fact can help us reach a more informed perspective on the evolving situation in Israel and Gaza.
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Sam Pratt@sampratt9920 Sep 2023
🚨 New study in Journal of Personality 🚨 We found that lonely people experience solitude more positively when they reframe it as a beneficial experience. A thread 🧵 1/8 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Solitude can be good—If you see it as such: Reappraisal helps lonely people experience solitude...

Objective Solitude is a common experience that can elicit both positive (e.g., relaxation) and negative (e.g., loneliness) emotions. But can changing the way we think about solitude improve its...

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Why the phrase "never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity" is actually bad for our politics - with @kurtjgray & @sampratt99 moralunderstanding.substack.…
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Featuring a lot of research from @RachelXHartman's illustrious psychology career!
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Liberals have "purity culture" too. We talk about a better way for liberals and conservatives to talk about their moral disgust in @aeonmag. Harm-based moral reframing! psyche.co/ideas/its-not-only…

It’s not only political conservatives who worry about moral purity | Psyche Ideas

You might think the political Right is more focussed on morals than the Left. But purity is a pervasive political value

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Thanks to @kurtjgray and @NichDiMaggio for letting me chime in with them on their research!
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So excited to announce I’ll be joining @StanfordPsych next year as a PhD Student!! It will be a dream come true to work with so many other interesting researchers and also to have more beautiful day trips like these 😁🌲
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How can people who say they don't like polarization still contribute to it? @kurtjgray and I show how our compulsion to blame others keeps us from moving on. open.substack.com/pub/moralu…
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Is it ever good to be dogmatic? Come see my poster at SPSP, and we'll talk about some studies I ran that try to tease apart good dogma from bad dogma!
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"Modern internet culture has adopted therapy-speak while repeatedly setting fire to the actual lessons of modern therapy." Gen-Z has the vocabulary to discuss mental health issues, without the insights to address them - nice article from Derek Thompson
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@DKThomp16 Feb 2023
What is happening to youth mental health? - 6 in 10 teen girls say they're persistently sad or hopeless - share of girls who say they've contemplated suicide increased 50% in the last decade - 25% of LGBQ teens say they've attempted suicide New piece: theatlantic.com/newsletters/…

America’s Teenage Girls Are Not Okay

Rising teen anxiety is a national crisis.

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Kurt Gray@kurtjgray26 Oct 2022
Effective altruism is too stressful and Kant died a virgin. In this post, we write about our existential anxiety (@blakey_will) and how many people we've converted to veganism (@CarlosReb5876). open.substack.com/pub/moralu…
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Esp lead author @RachelXHartman, and @kurtjgray, but also our large interdisciplinary team @jakewomick, @chris_bail, @EliJFinkel, @hahriehan, @J_R_Schroeder, @jayvanbavel, @RobbWiller /3
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link to the full paper here! static1.squarespace.com/stat…
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