People
Lab Director
C. Daryl Cameron, Ph.D.
Joyce L. and Douglas S. Sherwin Early Career Professor in Rock Ethics Institute, Associate Professor of Psychology, Senior Research Associate in Rock Ethics Institute
cdc49 (at) psu.edu
Research Staff
Clara Civiero, B.A.
Consortium / EMP Lab Research Assistant
Moral decision making in legal and business contexts, ethical leadership, empathy and its role in prosocial behaviour, and the intersection between morality and religious belief
Graduate Students
Stephen Anderson, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
Eliana Hadjiandreou, M.S.
Graduate Student
Alana Harris, B.A.
Graduate Student
Empathy barriers, intervention strategies, community engagement
Joshua Wenger, B.S.
Graduate Student
Faruk Yalçin, M.S.
Graduate Student
Graduate Affiliates
Becca Ruger
The formation of moral judgements, particularly relevant to everyday actions and inactions
Vani Gupta
Neuroscience of mindfulness and empathy through decision making, across different developmental periods
Sojung Baek
Anthropological approaches to empathy, including behavioral endocrinology and behavioral ecology
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Lauren O'Rourke
Political polarization, radicalization, in-group out-group conflict and identity formation
Rachel Buterbaugh
Social cognitive approaches to analyzing empathy and moral perception of behavior
Jessica Firestone
Political philosophy and state ethical decision-making
Hope Butler
Patterns of behavior, intersection of societal and personal beliefs, influence of morality on decision making
Evan Butler
Adolescent development, empathy and morality within groups, self-esteem maintenance and cognitive dissonance
Emily Trusal
Formation of out-group bias, moral judgement and behavior, and discrimination
Tiancheng Wang
Adolescent and family dynamics; Influence of emotion and morality on decision-making
Greg McLauchlan
Social psychology, sociology, and quantitative studies
Lab Alumni
India Oates, B.S. & B.A.
Human Research Technologist, 2021-2023
Outcomes of discrimination, perceptions and construction of out-group bias, dehumanization and stereotyping (now grad student at Chicago School of Professional Psychology)
Martina Orlandi, Ph.D.
Post-Doc Alumni, 2021-2022
Philosophy of action, moral psychology, self-control and self-deception, public philosophy (now assistant professor at Trent University)
Julian A. Scheffer, Ph.D.
Graduate Student Alumni, Class of 2021
Empathy regulation, moral behavior and judgment, effort-based decision making, social neuroscience (now post-doc at UC Berkeley, will start at University of Western Ontario as assistant professor in 2024)
Victoria Spring, Ph.D.
Graduate Student Alumni, Class of 2020
How individual, group, and situational factors influence perception of social emotions (went to post-doc at NYU)
Daniel Lim, Ph.D.
Post-Doc Alumni, 2018-2020
How adversity shapes empathy and prosocial behavior (now assistant professor at Adelphi University)
Melody Munitz, B.A.
Honors Student Alumni, Class of 2022
The role of empathy in the arts, cognitive and affective empathy discrepancies
Michael Pasek, Ph.D.
Graduate Affiliate Alumni
Consequences of stigma and prejudice as they affect various social identities, interventions to buffer individuals from prejudice
Nathaniel Geiger, Ph.D.
Graduate Affiliate Alumni
Engagement with climate change and social psychological factors that lead individuals to take action
Sinhae Cho, Ph.D.
Graduate Affiliate Alumni
Natalia Van Doren, Ph.D.
Graduate Affiliate Alumni
Danfei Hu, Ph.D.
Graduate Affiliate Alumni
Cognitive and motivational components of emotional processing and emotion regulation
Mike Lengieza, Ph.D.
Graduate Affiliate Alumni
Alison Schreiber, Ph.D.
Graduate Affiliate Alumni
Neurocomputational mechanisms of social decision-making and how personality modulates these processes
Jason Williamson, Ph.D.
Graduate Affiliate Alumni