The EMP Lab has recently published three papers. The first is a review on empathy regulation, helping, and morality, with Julian Scheffer (now at UC Berkeley) and Paul Conway, in Current Opinion in Psychology. This paper is part of a special issue on advances in understanding prosociality. For more see here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X21001809

Another recent publication is an interdisciplinary collaboration with Janet Swim and Robert Chiles, as well as Mike Lengieza and Eliana Hadjiandreou, in Journal of Social Psychology. This paper examines whether people choose empathy differently for human and animal targets, and what the associated cognitive effort costs may be. The paper is in a special issue on advances in the theoretical understanding and measurement of empathy. For more see here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224545.2021.1997890

Lastly, our group published a paper in Motivation and Emotion on choices to cultivate blame and outrage for others’ transgressions, and what the associated cognitive costs might be. Do people choose to enhance or suppress outrage and is it fatiguing? This work was a multi-study collaboration with Veerpal Bambrah and Michael Inzlicht. For more details, go here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-021-09917-y