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Stephen Anderson Takes Marketing Position

Stephen Anderson, who graduated from the EMP Lab in spring 2024, has taken a position as Senior Manager in Marketing Science at Coherency (https://coherency.com/). Congratulations, Stephen!

Clara Civiero & Lauren O’Rourke to Start PhD Programs

Clara Civiero (left) has been a post-baccalaureate RA for the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making this year, helping with team logistics & excelling as a culture-builder in the EMP Lab. She's starting her Social Psych PhD at Rutgers this...

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...

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...

EMP Lab Goes Bowling for Winter Social

Many of the members of the EMP Lab attended our first winter social event in several years, trying our hands at bowling. It was Faruk's first bowl! The lab abides.

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!

Dr. Cameron Named SPSP Fellow

Dr. Cameron has been named a Fellow in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, for making significant contributions to the field. More details about the 2023 Fellows are here.

Welcome to Josh, Faruk, and Clara!

The EMP Lab recently had a get together prior to the start of the Fall 2023 semester. A warm welcome to two incoming graduate students Josh Wenger and Faruk Yalcin, along with EMP Lab / Consortium research assistant Clara Civiero!  

Stephen Anderson Publishes Creative Empathy Paper

Graduate student Stephen Anderson has recently published his paper "Creative empathy", an interdisciplinary collaboration with Dr. Daryl Cameron and Dr. Roger Beaty (in Cognitive Psychology). This work includes and builds from Stephen's master's...

Stephen Anderson Receives Welch Graduate Fellowship

Stephen Anderson, rising 6th year graduate student in the EMP Lab, has received the Delbert F. and Marie S. Welch Graduate Fellowship, which will provide him a stipend of support for the 2023-2024 academic year. Learn more details about the...

Congrats to Taylor DePolo & Kenzie Flanders!

Congratulations to Taylor DePolo, who was awarded the Mona Shibley Bird Memorial Scholarship for excellence by an undergraduate, as well as Kenzie Flanders, who received and Honorable Mention for the Costello Family Scholarship in Psychology! They...

Dr. Cameron Named Sherwin Early Career Professor

Dr. Cameron has been named Douglas S. and Joyce L. Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute for 2023-2026, in recognition of his ethics-related research and teaching. More details about the Sherwin Early Career Professorship can...