Ideas By Kurt Gray January 17, 2025 7:00 AM EST Gray is a Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Deepest Beliefs Lab and the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding. He is the author of Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground The presidential inauguration is when our nation has traditionally moved past the intense us-versus-them mindset of an election.