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Eliana Hadjiandreou Presents at MPRG Online Conference

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 Accepts Grad Offer

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 Organizes SPSP Symposium

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!

Stephen Anderson Publishes Self Paper in JESP

Stephen Anderson has just had his first first-author paper, "How the Self Guides Empathy Choice" (with Daryl Cameron) accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Congrats on passing this big milestone, Stephen!

SSRI Announces the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making

The SSRI (Social Science Research Institute) put out a news release about the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making, check out here. If you're interested in learning more about the Consortium, which is set to officially launch next year, reach out to...

Eliana Hadjiandreou Visits Stanford

Eliana Hadjiandreou will be attending Dr. Jamil Zaki's Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory as a visiting graduate fellow during the 2022-2023 academic year. Congrats!

Stephen Anderson Receives RGSO Dissertation Award

Stephen Anderson has been awarded the RGSO Dissertation Award, which will provide financial support to fund his dissertation studies on empathic perspectives and moralization. Congrats, Stephen!

Dr. Cameron Named SESP Fellow

Dr. Cameron was named a Fellow in the Society for Experimental Social Psychology this year. SESP Fellows are elected on the basis of showing "evidence of substantial contribution to social psychology as an empirical science" (http://sesp.org).

Lab Publishes Paper on Motivated Empathy in AESP

The lab recently published a review paper, "Motivated empathic choices", in the journal Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. This paper summarizes the lab's work over the past 10 years, focusing on our work examining motivations that shape...

Eliana Hadjiandreou Publishes Paper on Adversity in TICS

Eliana Hadjiandreou (with Daryl Cameron) has published a new paper "Adversity-based identities drive social change" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. In this paper, she examines how adversity may serve as an identity grouping that can promote...