Overcoming Outrage in a Polarized World With Kurt Gray

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We have entered a time of unprecedented polarization that’s creating division among friends, family members, and co-workers. Understanding what’s driving our outrage is the first step in discovering what we can do about it, and in this first of two episodes, host Paula Felps sits down with Kurt Gray, author of the new book, Outrage: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground. This week Kurt – a professor in psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of its Center for the Science of Moral Understanding – unpacks how our perceptions of harm shape our outrage and then explains how our concerns and differences can foster hope for the future.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• How our perceptions of harm drive our outrage and create moral divides.
• Why facts aren’t effective in bridging our divides.
• How we can use political and moral disagreements to strengthen our relationships.