Kurt Gray: Understanding Outrage to Heal America

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4.6 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Step into the fascinating world of moral psychology with Kurt Gray, professor of psychology and neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill, who explores the psychology of outrage and moral understanding. As director of the Deepest Beliefs Lab and the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, Kurt unveils how we can bridge America's deepest divides through his groundbreaking CIV approach - Connect, Invite, and Validate. His new book 'Outrage' challenges us to understand both sides of moral conflicts and find common ground in our shared humanity.

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0:39.8	It takes a fifth of a second for your flight or fight response to be activated and 20 minutes for it to calm down.
0:47.8	And so part of, I think, managing outrage is just taking some time and space away. It's okay. It's okay to walk away from
0:57.4	the situation and say you need a little bit of time to come down and you think about it. And it's
1:02.6	okay to schedule it for a different time when you're not feeling angry. Like don't send emails
1:07.0	and anger. Try not to talk about politics when you're filled with rage. But I think what I try
1:12.0	to do and to get to the, you know, your point about thinking about the minds of others is to think about
1:18.6	like how these folks that I disagree with might feel victimized and the harms that they see.
1:26.4	Because once you see that the harms that someone else is worried about or how they feel like they've been victimized and the harms that they see. Because once you see that the harms that someone else is
1:29.4	worried about or how they feel like they've been victimized, even if I don't agree with their position,
1:35.3	I can at least see them as a little more human. And that goes a long way. I'm Guy Kawasaki. This is
1:42.9	remarkable people. We're on a mission to make you remarkable. So we bring in
1:47.6	remarkable guests so that they can pass on their knowledge and wisdom and tactics and
1:53.3	strategies. Today's remarkable guess is Kurt Gray. He earned his PhD in psychology at Harvard. He's currently a professor of
2:04.9	psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Is that where
2:10.6	Michael Jordan went to school? You bet. You bet. He's the second most famous graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chaffle Hill.
2:21.2	And he's the director of, I have never heard of academic labs named like this,
2:27.8	but he's the director, I got to read this to make sure I got it right.
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