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Empathy and Moral Psychology
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JOURNAL ARTICLES

In Press / 2023

Inzlicht, M., Cameron, C. D., D’Cruz, J., & Bloom, P. (in press).

In praise of empathic AI. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Preprint here: https://osf.io/py8tv

Anderson, S., Cameron, C. D., & Beaty, R. E. (in press).

Creative empathy. Creativity Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2023.2229649

Swim, J. K., Guerriero, J., Lengieza, M. L., & Cameron, C. D. (2023).

The effects of stereotypes about animals’ competence and warmth on empathy choice. Anthrozoös, 36(6), 1061-1077.

Anderson, S., & Cameron, C. D. (2023).

How the self guides empathy choice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 106, 104444.

Azevedo, F., Pavlović, T., Rêgo, G. G. d., Ay, F. C., Gjoneska, B., Etienne, T., … Sampaio, W. M. (2023).

Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Scientific Data, 10, 272. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a3562

2022

Hadjiandreou, E., & Cameron, C. D. (2022).

Adversity-based identities drive social change. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26, 725-727

Cameron, C. D., Scheffer, J. A., Hadjiandreou, E., & Anderson, S. (2022).

Motivated empathic choices. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 66, 191-279.

Bambrah, V., Cameron, C. D., & Inzlicht, M. (2022).

Outrage fatigue? Cognitive costs and decisions to blame. Motivation and Emotion, 46, 176-196.

Cameron, C. D., Lengieza, M. L., Hadjiandreou, E., Swim, J. K., & Chiles, R. M. (2022).

Empathic choices for animals versus humans: The role of choice context and perceived cost. The Journal of Social Psychology, 162(1), 161-177.

Cameron, C. D., Conway, P., & Scheffer, J.A. (2022).

Empathy regulation, prosociality, and moral judgment. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 188-195.

Scheffer, J. A., Cameron, C. D., & Inzlicht, M. (2022).

Caring is costly: People avoid the cognitive work of compassion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(1), 172-196.

Scheffer, J. A., Cameron, C. D., McKee, S., Hadjiandreou, E., & Scherer, A. M. (2022).

Stereotypes about compassion across the political spectrum. Emotion, 22(3), 466-478.

Van Bavel, J. J., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Sjåstad, H., Nezlek, J. B., Pavlovic, T., Alfano, M., Gelfand, M. J., Azevedo, F., Birtel, M. D., Cislak, A., Lockwood, P. L., Ross, R. M., Abts, K., Agadullina, E., Aruta, J. J. B., Besharati, S. N., Bor, A., Choma, B. L., … Boggio, P. (2022).

National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Communications, 13(1), 517.

2021

Rosenfeld, D. L., Balcetis, E., Bastian, B., Berkman, E. T., Bosson, J. K., Brannon, T. N., Burrow, A. L., Cameron, C. D., Chen, S., Cook, J. E., Crandall, C., Davidai, S., Dhont, K., Eastwick, P. W., Gaither, S. E., Gangestad, S. W., Gilovich, T., Gray, K. J., Haines, E. L., … Tomiyama, A. J. (2021).

Psychological science in the wake of COVID-19: Social, methodological, and meta-scientific considerations. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691621999374

Ferguson, A. M., Cameron, C. D., & Inzlicht, M. (2021).

When does empathy feel good? Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 39, 125-129.

Kirby, J. N., Seppala, E., Wilks, M., Cameron, C. D., Tellegen, C. L., Nguyen, D. T. H., Misra, S., Simon-Thomas, E., Feinberg, M., Doty, J. (2021).

Positive and negative attitudes towards compassion predict compassionate outcomes. Current Psychology, 40, 4884-4894.

2020

Todd, A. R., Cameron, C. D., & Simpson, A. (2020).

The goal-dependence of level-1 and level-2 visual perspective calculation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47, 948-967.

Ferguson, A. M., Cameron, C. D., & Inzlicht, M. (2020).

Motivational effects on empathic choices. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 90.

Cameron, C. D., & Inzlicht, M. (2020).

Empathy choice in physicians and non-physicians. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59, 715-732.

2019

Cameron, C. D., Hutcherson, C. A., Ferguson, A., Scheffer, J. A., Hadjiandreou, E., & Inzlicht, M. (2019).

Empathy is hard work: People choose to avoid empathy because of its cognitive costs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 962-976.

Todd, A., Simpson, A., & Cameron, C. D. (2019).

Time pressure disrupts level-2, but not level-1, visual perspective calculation: A process-dissociation analysis. Cognition, 189, 41-54.

Spring, V. L., Cameron, C. D., McKee, S., & Todd, A. (2019).

Intentional and unintentional empathy for pain among physicians and non-physicians. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 440-448.

Spring, V. L., Cameron, C. D., & Cikara, M. (2019).

Asking different questions about outrage: A reply to Brady & Crockett. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23, 80-82.

2018

Spring, V. L., Cameron, C. D., & Cikara, M. (2018).

The upside of outrage. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 1067-1069.

Cameron, C. D. (2018).

Motivating empathy: Three methodological recommendations for mapping empathy. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 12, e12418.

Cameron, C. D., Reber, J., Spring, V. L., & Tranel, D. (2018).

Damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is associated with impairments in both spontaneous and deliberative moral judgments. Neuropsychologia, 111, 261-268.

2017

Gray, K., Schein, C., & Cameron, C. D. (2017).

How to think about emotions and morality: Circles, not arrows. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 41-46.

Cooley, E., Payne, B. K., Cipolli, W., Cameron, C. D., Berger, A., & Gray, K. (2017).

The paradox of group mind: “People in a group” have more mind than “a group of people”. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 691-699.

Cameron, C. D., Spring, V. L., & Todd, A. (2017).

The empathy impulse: A multinomial model of intentional and unintentional empathy for pain. Emotion, 17, 395-411.

Todd, A., Cameron, C. D., & Simpson, A. (2017).

Dissociating processes underlying level-1 visual perspective-taking in adults. Cognition, 159, 97-101.

Cameron, C. D., Payne, B. K., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Scheffer, J. A., & Inzlicht, M. (2017).

Implicit moral evaluations: A multinomial modeling approach. Cognition, 158, 224-241.

Woodward, H., Treat, T., Cameron, C. D., & Yegorova, V. (2017).

Valence and arousal-based affective evaluations of foods. Eating Behaviors, 24, 26-33.

2016 – 2015

Woodward, H., Cameron, C.D., & Treat, T. (2016).

Enhancing the conceptualization and measurement of implicit and explicit affective evaluations: A case study of disordered eating. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 10, 252-264.

Cameron, C.D., Harris, L.T., & Payne, B.K. (2016).

The emotional cost of humanity: Anticipated exhaustion motivates dehumanization of stigmatized targets. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 105-112.

Cameron, C.D., Lindquist, K.A., & Gray, K. (2015).

A constructionist review of morality and emotions: No evidence for specific links between moral content and discrete emotions. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19, 371-394.

Cameron, C.D., & Fredrickson, B.L. (2015).

Mindfulness facets predict helping behavior and distinct helping-related emotions. Mindfulness, 6, 1211-1218.

2013 – 2007

Payne, B.K., Brown-Iannuzzi, J., Burkley, M., Arbuckle, N., Cooley, E., Cameron, C.D., & Lundberg, K.B. (2013).

Intention invention and the affect misattribution procedure: Reply to Bar-Anan and Nosek (2012). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 375-386.

Cameron, C.D., Payne, B.K., & Doris, J.M. (2013).

Morality in high definition: Emotion differentiation calibrates the influence of incidental disgust on moral judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 719-725.

Cameron, C.D., Brown-Iannuzzi, J., & Payne, B.K. (2012).

Sequential priming measures of implicit social cognition: A meta-analysis of associations with behaviors and explicit attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 16, 330-350.

Cameron, C.D., & Payne, B.K. (2012).

The cost of callousness: Regulating compassion influences the moral self-concept. Psychological Science, 23, 225-229.

Cameron, C.D., & Payne, B.K. (2011).

Escaping affect: How motivated emotion regulation creates insensitivity to mass suffering. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 1-15.

Payne, B.K., Hall, D., Cameron, C.D., & Bishara, A. (2010).

A process model of affect misattribution. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1397-1408.

Cameron, C.D., Payne, B.K., & Knobe, J. (2010).

Do theories of implicit race bias change moral judgments? Social Justice Research, 23, 272-289. Winner of the International Society for Justice Research 2010 Morton Deutsch Award

Shean, G., Bell, E., & Cameron, C.D. (2007).

Recognition of nonverbal affect and schizotypy. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 141, 281-292.

Commentaries

Spring, V.L., Cameron, C.D., Gray, K., & Lindquist, K.A. (2017).

Constructing contempt. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40.

Books

Seppala, E., Doty, J., Worline, M., Simon-Thomas, E., Cameron, C. D., & Brown, S. (2017).

The Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science.

Book Chapters

Cameron, C.D., Scheffer, J.A., & Spring, V.L. (2018).

Implicit moral cognition. In K. Gray & J. Graham (Eds.), Atlas of Moral Psychology. Guilford Press.

Cameron, C. D. (2017).

Compassion collapse: Why we are numb to numbers. In E. Seppala, J. Doty, M. Worline, E. Simon-Thomas, C. D. Cameron, & S. Brown (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science. Oxford University Press.

Cameron, C.D., & Rapier, K. (2017).

Compassion is a motivated choice. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong & C. Miller (Eds.), Moral Psychology, Vol 5: Virtues and Character. MIT Press.

Caldwell, B., Cameron, C.D., Strohminger, N., Schaich-Borg, J., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2014).

Implicit moral attitudes. In H. Rusch, Christoph Lutge, & Matthias Uhl (Eds.), Experimental Ethics.

Payne, B.K., & Cameron, C.D. (2014).

Free will worth having and the intentional control of behavior. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral Psychology, Vol. 4: Freedom and Responsibility.

Payne, B.K., & Cameron, C.D. (2014).

Dual process theory from a process dissociation perspective. In J. Sherman, B. Gawronski, & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual Process Theories of the Social Mind.

Payne, B.K., & Cameron, C.D. (2012).

Implicit social cognition and mental representation. In D. Carlston (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition. Oxford University Press.

Payne, B.K., & Cameron, C.D. (2010).

Divided minds, divided morals: How implicit social cognition underpins and undermines our sense of social justice. In B. Gawronski & B.K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of Implicit Social Cognition. Guilford Press.