The EMP Lab is excited to welcome Alana Harris, who will be joining the EMP Lab as a new graduate student this spring/summer. She completed her undergraduate degree at University of Oklahoma. Welcome to the EMP Lab, Alana!

The EMP Lab is excited to welcome Joshua Wenger, who will be joining the EMP Lab as an incoming graduate student in fall 2023. He completed his undergraduate degree at Eastern Mennonite University and is interested in moral responsibility...

The EMP Lab is excited to welcome Faruk Yalçin, who will be joining the EMP Lab as an incoming graduate student in the fall of 2023. He is completing his Master's at Sabanci University and is interested in investigating the role of empathy in moral...

India Oates, who has been managing the lab for the past two years, will be going to graduate school this fall. She will be joining the Chicago School of Professional Psychology's Psy.D Program with a concentration in forensic psychology....

Stephen Anderson has received the Superior Teaching and Research (STAR) Award for excellence in all aspects of graduate work -- teaching, research, and service. This award will provide funding support for some of Stephen's dissertation studies and...

Stephen Anderson's talk at the Penn State Graduate Exhibition received an award for coming in third place (i.e., the third highest rated presentation). This work involved Stephen's initial dissertation work, supported by an RGSO Dissertation Award....

Time for some empathy oceanside! The EMP Lab presented several times at the upcoming Society for Affective Science conference in Long Beach, California. Dr. Cameron gave talks at the Intergroup Emotions and the Positive Emotions preconferences, as...

Dr. Cameron received one of the competitive James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Fund Awards for 2023-2024, to provide funding to extend sabbaticals to a full year to focus on advancing new projects. More details about the award are here:...

The fifth year of the Expanding Empathy Speaker Series at the Rock Ethics Institute started off on Friday March 24 with a panel including Dr. Kristin Andrews (Philosophy, York University) and Dr. Kristof Dhont (Psychology, University of Kent) on...

On Friday March 17, the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making had a soft launch, with 25 faculty from around the university. Faculty attended in person and on Zoom (see below) from disciplines including psychology (social, clinical,...

Dr. Cameron presented in a symposium he organized at the International Convention for Psychological Science (more here) in Brussels, Belgium in March. The symposium is "Empathy Regulation, Effort, and Prosocial Choices.

Eliana Hadjiandreou presented her work on moral expansiveness at the inaugural online conference of the Moral Psychology Research Group (https://sites.google.com/view/mprg/online-events). This group, which has existed for 20 years, includes a...

Bayla Thompson, one of the EMP Lab research assistant graduates from a couple of years ago, has accepted an offer for a Ph.D. program in social psychology from Florida State University. Congrats, Bayla!

Eliana Hadjiandreou recently organized a symposium at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference in Atlanta on "New Directions in Moral Expansiveness", in which she also gave a talk. Congrats, Eliana!

A huge congratulations to Dr. Julian Scheffer, who graduated from the EMP Lab in 2021, for accepting a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Western Ontario!  He'll start his position in fall 2024. Dr. Scheffer is currently a...