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Empathy and Moral Psychology
(EMP) Lab

Empathy and Moral Psychology
(EMP) Lab

Expanding Empathy Returns for 2022

The Expanding Empathy speaker series is returning for the 4th year at the Rock Ethics Institute! This year it is co-organized with Dr. Martina Orlandi, Post-Doctoral Scholar in Engaged Ethics, and will involve four panels pairing a psychologist and philosopher in...

Lab Receives Grant on Ethics & AI

The EMP Lab received another grant ($5,000) from the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence, on “‘You Do Your Own Dirty Work’: Addressing the Risks of Ethical Outsourcing to Artificial Intelligence”. This interdisciplinary grant proposal...

Lab Publishes Papers on Morality, Blame, Animal Empathy

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...