The EMP Lab met up for one last coffee in early May. Cheers to our graduates and to a good summer!
Lab News
Eliana Hadjiandreou Graduates
In early May, Eliana Hadjiandreou officially graduated from Penn State, with her Ph.D., at the commencement ceremony. Congrats, Eliana!
EMP Lab Celebrates End of Spring Semester
The EMP Lab celebrated the end of the spring semester with a hike through campus and over to Berkey Creamery. Congratulations to our graduating seniors Lauren and Emily, and to our lab/Consortium RA Clara who will all be moving on this summer!
Last EMP Lab / MASC Lab Meeting of the Semester
On Friday, we had the last joint lab meeting between our lab and Sean Laurent's Morality & Social Cognition (MASC) Lab. It was a beautiful day in sunny State College, so we decided to meet outside, and reflect on how the year had gone and where...
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...
Eliana Hadjiandreou Defends Dissertation, Starts New Post Doc at UT Austin
Eliana Hadjiandreou, one of the lab’s senior graduate students, successfully defended her dissertation in February, on motivation and the shape of the moral circle for self and others. Excellent work, Dr. Hadjiandreou! And good luck in your new...
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 Receives SSRI Level 4 Grant for Consortium on Moral Decision-Making
Dr. Cameron (with Dr. Andrew High from Communication Arts and Sciences) has received a Level 4 Interdisciplinary Research Initiative Grant (https://ssri.psu.edu/funding/ssri-level-4-interdisciplinary-research-initiative) from the Social Science...
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!
Story about Dr. Cameron’s Cattell Sabbatical Fellowship
Penn State News released a story about Dr. Cameron's Cattell Fund Sabbatical Fellowship, which will allow him to take the full 2023-2024 academic year to go on sabbatical. For more, read here:...