Creating a new science of moral understanding

 

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We are providing new solutions for bridging the moral divides that drive political intolerance and personal animosity.

How can we cure our political divisions and overcome our moral conflicts? We need a new interdisciplinary science that provides empirically backed ways of reducing intolerance and fostering dialogue. The Center for the Science of Moral Understanding is developing this new science.

 
 
 
 

The Center for the Science of Moral Understanding at the University of North Carolina is catalyzing a new academic field

By bringing together scholars with diverse perspectives, experiences, and ideas, the Center will become a hub of groundbreaking research on moral understanding.

 
 
 
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Led by social psychologist Kurt Gray, the Center is producing an original research program on what drives moral conflict and intolerance, and how to overcome our divisions

By bringing together scholars with diverse perspectives, experiences, and ideas, the Center will become a hub of groundbreaking research on moral understanding.

 
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