Recent News

 

2021

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• I discussed public shaming and online outrage for Discover Magazine. Read

• Our commentary on how personal experiences can increase respect but also be abused for personal agendas is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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2020

• I spoke about outrage and politicial division on the podcast "Defiance." Listen here!

• On Anger is one of The New Yorker's "Best Books of 2020."

• I spoke about moral outrage on the podcast "Stop Giving A F*ck." Listen here!

• I have successfully defended my dissertation at Penn State!

• I'm delighted to announce that I will be joining the Social Identity and Morality Lab at New York University in the fall for a postdoc working with Jay Van Bavel.

• I have been awarded the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding's Emerging Scholars grant for research on political polarization and moral outrage.

• My response to Agnes Callard's essay "On Anger," written with Daryl Cameron, has been published in Boston Review.

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2019

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• I have been awarded the Outstanding Student Publication Award from the Penn State Psychology Department for my paper with Daryl Cameron and Mina Cikara, "The upside of outrage" (2019, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)

• I will be attending the SPSP Summer Institute in Social and Personality Psychology (SISPP) Intergroup Relations course in July 2019.

• I will be presenting a talk on "The upside of outrage" at the Positive Emotions preconference of the 2019 Society for Affective Science in Boston.

• My article "Can outrage be a good thing?" is now live at Scientific American.

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2018

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• My paper "Asking different questions about outrage," written in collaboration with Daryl Cameron and Mina Cikara in response to a comment on our previous TiCS paper has been published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

• My paper "The upside of outrage," written in collaboration with Daryl Cameron and Mina Cikara, has been published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

• I will be chairing the symposium "The functions and perils of moral outrage" at the 2019 general meeting of SPSP in Portland. I will also be speaking in that same symposium on "The upside of outrage."

• I have been awarded an SPSP Graduate Travel Award for the 2019 SPSP annual meeting.

• My paper "Intentional and unintentional empathy for pain among physicians and non-physicians," co-authored with Daryl Cameron, Stephanie McKee, and Andrew Todd, was published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.

• My undergraduate student, Shenyun Chen, was awarded first place for conceptual research at the Penn State Psi Chi student research conference, presenting her work on reward and empathy for pain among everyday psychopaths.

• My paper "Damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is associated with impairments in both spontaneous and deliberative moral judgments," written in collaboration with Justin Reber, Daryl Cameron, and Daniel Tranel, was published in Neuropsychologia.

• I will present a poster on modeling empathy for pain among physicians at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science in Los Angeles.

• My chapter "The vicarious brain: Integrating empathy and emotional learning," co-written with Andreas Olsson, is forthcoming from Neuronal Correlates of Empathy (Elsevier).

• My chapter "Moral intuitions," co-written with Daryl Cameron and Julian Scheffer, is forthcoming from Atlas of Moral Psychology (Guilford).

 

2017

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• I presented a flash talk, "Modeling medical empathy," at the meeting of the Moral Psychology Research Group in State College, PA.

• In collaboration with Daryl Cameron, Kristen Lindquist, and Kurt Gray, I have published a commentary "Constructing contempt" in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

• "The empathy impulse: A multinomial model of intentional and unintentional empathy for pain," written by myself and Daryl Cameron and Andrew Todd, was published in Emotion.

• I will present a poster on multinomial modeling of empathy for pain at the 2017 meeting of the European Association for Social Psychology in Granada, Spain.

• I will present a poster on the identifiable victim effect at the 2017 annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science in Boston.

• I presented a poster on the identifiable victim effect at the 2017 SPSP general meeting in San Antonio, and at the Emotion Preconference of the same meeting.