The lab recently published a review paper, “Motivated empathic choices”, in the journal Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. This paper summarizes the lab’s work over the past 10 years, focusing on our work examining motivations that shape empathy gaps, such as compassion collapse for mass suffering and dehumanization of stigmatized targets. The paper also covers our development of the empathy selection task as a measure of willingness to empathize with others, and how we have extended that work in a variety of ways to examine other emotions, contexts, and group effects. The paper serves as a nice overview of where our lab has been and where its future resides. For more, read the paper here:
Lab Publishes Paper on Motivated Empathy in AESP