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Empathy and Moral Psychology
(EMP) Lab

Empathy and Moral Psychology
(EMP) Lab

Joshua Wenger Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Joshua Wenger, a first-year graduate student in the EMP Lab, has learned that he has received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, which will support his research and training for the next several years. He will have the chance to continue...

New Lab Paper on AI Empathy in TICS

Dr. Cameron has published a paper (with Michael Inzlicht, philosopher Jason D’Cruz, and Paul Bloom), “In praise of empathic AI”, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. To read more, check out the pre-print: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/py8tv...

Stephen Anderson Defends Dissertation!

Stephen Anderson, one of the lab’s senior graduate students, successfully defended his dissertation earlier this month, on second-hand empathy and moralization. Excellent work, Dr. Anderson!