Julian Scheffer has formally graduated from the EMP Lab with his Ph.D. in the summer 2021 graduation ceremony -- a big moment for him and the EMP Lab! Here are a couple of pictures. Julian will be moving on to UC Berkeley for his post-doctoral...

As of June 2021, India Oates (B.S. and B.A. in Psychology and Religious Studies) has joined the EMP Lab as a new human research technologist, to facilitate grant-funded studies on empathy and prosocial behavior. Welcome to the lab, India!...

Julian Scheffer has accepted a post-doctoral position to work with Bob Levenson at UC Berkeley, at the Berkeley Psychophysiology Laboratory. Julian will be spending multiple years there to study empathy and caregiving in clinical settings using a...

Julian Scheffer has defended his dissertation on spontaneous moralization in intergroup political contexts. Julian has been central to many of the lab projects over the past seven years, as a foundational member of the EMP Lab. Congratulations on...

Stephen Anderson has defended his comprehensive examination review paper, on morality and time, and is now ABD. Congratulations, Stephen!

Eliana Hadjiandreou has received a Roosevelt Scholarship for summer 2021 from the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, to work on topics related to empathy and effort across political group divides using the Mood of the Nation poll. For more...

Stephen Anderson is presenting a poster (with pre-recorded talk) on "Creative Empathy" at the Society for Affective Science online conference this April. This work, in collaboration with Roger Beaty, has been judged a highly ranked submission and...

Julian Scheffer has received the Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award for his dissertation research. As noted on the award website, "This award is considered to be among the most prestigious available to Penn State graduate students and...

Eliana Hadjiandreou (along with Stephen Anderson, Julian Scheffer, and Daryl Cameron) will present a talk on "Political Empathy Bias in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election" at the preconference on The Role of Emotions in Intergroup Conflict at the...

Julian Scheffer (with Daryl Cameron and Michael Inzlicht) has published a new paper "Caring is costly: People avoid the cognitive work of compassion" in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. In this paper, the authors examine people's...

Dr. Cameron, along with co-PI Dr. Alan Wagner (Aerospace Engineering, PSU), has been awarded a $25,000 grant from Penn State's Center for Socially Responsible AI (details here). Drs. Cameron and Wagner will explore the role of empathy in...

The Expanding Empathy series that Dr. Cameron hosts through the Rock Ethics Institute is returning in March and April 2021. Follow the link to the news release through Penn State News.

Bayla Thompson received an Honorable Mention for Penn State's Mona Shibley Bird Memorial Award. Congrats Bayla!

Eliana Hadjiandreou was recently named as a Student Affiliate in UNC's Center for the Science of Moral Understanding (details here). This competitive position will allow Eliana the opportunity to collaborate and network with moral psychologists...

Stephen Anderson was recently named as a Student Affiliate in UNC's Center for the Science of Moral Understanding (details here). This competitive position will allow Stephen the opportunity to collaborate and network with moral psychologists...