What Are We Really Fighting Over? Understanding Outrage Through Moral Psychology

You're listening to the Michael Shermer Show. All right, everybody. Hey, it's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. As always, brought to you by Skeptic Society Skeptic Magazine. Hey, check out our new issue, just came out.

Look at that theme, crime and punishment. Hey, we're taking on new topics, cultural, uh, cultural war topics, political topics, economic topics, stuff that that's uh really important. Yes, we'll still cover UFOs and psychics and and uh Bigfoot and all the aliens and all that con good conspiracy stuff, but uh there are other pressing issues uh that we have to address. One of which is political uh polarization, which we're going to address today. My guest is Kirk Gray.

He's a professor in psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Deepest Beliefs Lab. Yes, there's a lab that studies the deepest beliefs. Well, I kind of have one here in our offices at Skeptic, but uh I think they actually conduct real real research there. And the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding. Uh, Kurt received his PhD in social psychology from Harvard University.

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