Eliana Hadjiandreou has once again received the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Scholarship for summer 2022 from the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, to study moral emotions and political polarization. Congrats!

Eliana Hadjiandreou has received the Forrest S. Crawford Graduate Fellowship from the Rock Ethics Institute to support her dissertation research on perceptions of pro-sociality. Excellent work, Eliana!

Dr. Cameron and Eliana Hadjiandreou (co-PI) received a Democracy Research Support grant from the Penn State McCourtney Institute for Democracy (democracy.psu.edu) for the project "Empathy Choice, Democratic Norms, and Moral Responsibility." This...

Melody Munitz, who completed an Honors Thesis with Dr. Cameron as the EMP Lab's first Honors student, has been named as the Student Marshal for the Psychology Department for this year's graduation ceremony. Congratulations, Melody!

Stephen Anderson has been named one of the emerging student editors on the Editorial Board of Personality and Social Psychology Review. Congratulations, Stephen!

Dr. Cameron received one of the 2022 Early Career in Affective Science Awards from the Society for Affective Science (more details here). Dr. Cameron is very appreciate of his supportive mentors, stellar grad students, post docs, and undergrad RA's...

Two recent articles discussed Melody Munitz's Honors thesis about empathy, theater, and engagement. In Onward State, Melody talks about her work and the blend of psychology and theater:...

The Expanding Empathy speaker series is returning for the 4th year at the Rock Ethics Institute! This year it is co-organized with Dr. Martina Orlandi, Post-Doctoral Scholar in Engaged Ethics, and will involve four panels pairing a psychologist and...

The EMP Lab received another grant ($5,000) from the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence, on "‘You Do Your Own Dirty Work’: Addressing the Risks of Ethical Outsourcing to Artificial Intelligence". This interdisciplinary grant...

The EMP Lab has recently published three papers. The first is a review on empathy regulation, helping, and morality, with Julian Scheffer (now at UC Berkeley) and Paul Conway, in Current Opinion in Psychology. This paper is part of a special issue...

Dr. Martina Orlandi, Post-Doctoral Scholar in Engaged Ethics, has been selected as a Marc Sanders Foundation Media Fellow (see here:https://dailynous.com/2021/07/13/sanders-foundation-announces-philosophy-in-the-media-initiative/). She will...

Eliana Hadjiandreou has received funding support for her research from the Makarios Scholarship Foundation at the Cyprus Children's Fund. Congrats, Eliana!

Martina Orlandi, Ph.D. (Philosophy), has joined the EMP Lab as a post-doctoral scholar in engaged ethics. This position is co-hosted through the Rock Ethics Institute, where Dr. Orlandi will work with Dr. Cameron on the Moral Agency and Moral...

Penn State News interviewed Julian Scheffer and Daryl Cameron about their paper on compassion choice in JEP: General. Read the press release here.

Eliana Hadjiandreou has defended her comprehensive examination review paper, on perceptions of prosociality, and is now ABD. Congratulations, Eliana!