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Empathy and Moral Psychology
(EMP) Lab

Empathy and Moral Psychology
(EMP) Lab

Dr. Cameron Named SESP Fellow

Dr. Cameron was named a Fellow in the Society for Experimental Social Psychology this year. SESP Fellows are elected on the basis of showing “evidence of substantial contribution to social psychology as an empirical science” (http://sesp.org).

Lab Publishes Paper on Motivated Empathy in AESP

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...

Eliana Hadjiandreou Publishes Paper on Adversity in TICS

Eliana Hadjiandreou (with Daryl Cameron) has published a new paper “Adversity-based identities drive social change” in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. In this paper, she examines how adversity may serve as an identity grouping that can promote prosocial...

Melody Munitz Receives Honor for Thesis

Melody Munitz was awarded second place for the University Libraries Undergraduate Research Award for Excellence in Information Literacy, for her Honors thesis with the EMP Lab, “The Effects of Spatial Distance and Empathy on Emotional Responses to Theatrical...