Sam Pratt
PhD Student in Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles. I study moral and political disagreement, focusing on why people see the world so differently and strategies to bridge divides. Supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Email: sampratt@g.ucla.edu · Google Scholar · Newsletter · CV (PDF)
Selected publications
- Womick, J., Goya-Tocchetto, D., Restrepo Ochoa, N., Rebollar, C., Kapsaskis, K., Pratt, S., Devine, H., Payne, B. K., Vaisey, S., & Gray, K. (2026). Liberals and conservatives see different victims: Moral disagreement is explained by different assumptions of vulnerability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi:10.1177/01461672261422957
- Pratt, S., Jones, P. J., Bellet, B. W., McNally, R. J., & Gray, K. (2026). The Words Can Harm Scale: Measuring beliefs about harmful speech. Personality and Individual Differences, 257. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2026.113785
- Worsnip, A., Lane, D., Pratt, S., Napolitano, M. G., Gray, K., & Greene, J. (2025). Authority or autonomy? Philosophical and psychological perspectives on deference to experts. Philosophical Psychology. doi:10.1080/09515089.2025.2475138
- Gray, K., & Pratt, S. (2025). Morality in our mind and across cultures and politics. Annual Review of Psychology, 76, 663–691. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-020924-124236
- Pratt, S., Rosenfeld, D. L., Goranson, A., Tomiyama, A. J., Sheeran, P., & Gray, K. (2025). Health behaviors are moralized when perceived to cause harm. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi:10.1177/01461672251372823
- Pratt, S., Jones, P. J., Bridgland, V. M. E., Bellet, B. W., & McNally, R. J. (2025). Sending signals: Trigger warnings and safe space notifications. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. doi:10.1037/xap0000541
- Rodriguez, M., Pratt, S., Bellet, B. W., & McNally, R. J. (2023). Solitude can be good—If you see it as such. Journal of Personality. doi:10.1111/jopy.12887
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