Authority or autonomy? Philosophical and psychological perspectives on deference to experts

Alex Worsnip, Devin Lane, Samuel Pratt, M. Giulia Napolitano, Kurt Gray, Jeffrey Greene

Philosophical Psychology, 2025, pp. 1-36

Morality in our Mind and Across Cultures and Politics

Kurt Gray, Samuel Pratt

Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 76, 2025, pp. 663-691

Sending Signals: Trigger Warnings and Safe Space Notifications

Samuel Pratt, Payton J. Jones, Victoria M. E. Bridgland, Benjamin W. Bellet, Richard J. McNally

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2025

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

Micaela Rodriguez, Samuel Pratt, Benjamin W. Bellet, Richard J. McNally

Journal of Personality, 2023

Health Behaviors are Moralized When They Seem to Cause Harm

Samuel Pratt, Daniel L. Rosenfeld, Amelia Goranson, A. Janet Tomiyama, Paschal Sheeran, Kurt Gray

2025

Moral Disagreement across Politics is Explained by Different Assumptions about who is Most Vulnerable to Harm

Jake Womick, Daniella Goya-Tocchetto, Nicolas Restrepo Ochoa, Carlos Rebollar, Kyra Kapsaskis, Samuel Pratt, B. Keith Payne, Stephen Vaisey, Kurt Gray

2024

Testing the Coddling Hypothesis: Campus Safetyism and Student Resilience

Samuel Pratt, Benjamin W. Bellet, Payton J. Jones, Richard J. McNally

2024

Investigating Intellectual Safetyism: What are the Consequences of Shielding Students from Emotional Discomfort?

Samuel Pratt

Harvard University, 2023