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Empathy and Moral Psychology
(EMP) Lab

Empathy and Moral Psychology
(EMP) Lab

Melody Munitz Revisits Penn State

Earlier this semester in April, EMP Lab Honors alum Melody Munitz revisited us at Penn State while starring as Wednesday Addams in the off-Broadway production of the Addams Family. Melody did an interdisciplinary Honors thesis with us on empathy and engagement during...

Faruk Yalcin Publishes Science e-Letter on Outrage

Faruk Yalcin, second-year graduate student in the EMP Lab, has published an e-letter in Science in response to McLoughlin et al.’s paper on moral outrage and social media. In the article, he discusses motivational approaches to outrage and how to think about...

Joshua Wenger Presents at Society for Affective Science

Joshua Wenger gave his first external conference talk on AI empathy choice paradox at the Society for Affective Science in Portland, Oregon! He was part of a larger session on AI empathy that was led by Dr. Cameron as discussant, and included some wonderful cross-over...

EMP Lab at SPSP 2025

EMP Lab graduate student Joshua Wenger will be presenting two posters on our work on empathic AI. Come say hi to Josh, and nice work in repping the EMP Lab at SPSP this year!