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 (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, 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, 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...

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...

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, 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 (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 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.

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!  

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:...

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, 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...

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 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...