He received his BS from the University of Waterloo and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Gray has been named a Rising Star and was awarded the Janet Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Research by the Association for Psychological Science. He was also awarded the Theoretical Innovation Award by the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Psi Chi Teaching Award for exemplary undergraduate teaching. His work has been generously funded by the John Templeton Foundation, and he has published in the journals Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He has given two TED event talks and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Slate, Wired, Boston Globe, LA Times, and The Economist.