Victoria Spring

Postdoctoral Fellow
New York University
Ph.D., Social Psychology
Specialization in Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience
The Pennsylvania State University
B.A., Psychology, 2012
With Distinction and Highest Honors
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Interests:
I am interested in social emotions such as empathy (and why we don't have it), anger (and why we're afraid of it), and moral judgment (and why we mostly just judge marginalized people). Specifically, I am interested in how individual, group, and situational factors influence our perception of different social emotions and how those emotions are transformed into subsequent moral behavior.
My work is interdisciplinary, spanning social and cognitive psychology, neuroscience, engineering, and philosophy.
Contact:
vls23 at psu dot edu