A5009142004- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Free Will and Agency
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Community Health and Development
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Pennsylvania State University
2016-2023
University of Iowa
2015-2016
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2010-2013
As the number of people in need help increases, degree compassion feel for them ironically tends to decrease. This phenomenon is termed collapse compassion. Some researchers have suggested that this effect happens because emotions are not triggered by aggregates. We provide evidence an alternative account. People expect needs large groups be potentially overwhelming, and, as a result, they engage emotion regulation prevent themselves from experiencing overwhelming levels emotion. Because...
Empathy is considered a virtue, yet it fails in many situations, leading to basic question: When given choice, do people avoid empathy? And if so, why? Whereas past work has focused on material and emotional costs of empathy, here, we examined whether experience empathy as cognitively taxing costly, them it. We developed the selection task, which uses free choices assess desire empathize. Participants make series binary choices, selecting situations that lead engage or an alternative course...
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing stricter hygiene) endorsed policy closing bars restaurants) the early stage of COVID-19 pandemic (April-May 2020). Respondents who reported identifying...
Although mind perception is a basic part of social interaction, people often dehumanize others by denying them mental states. Many theories suggest that dehumanization happens in order to facilitate aggression or account for past immorality. We novel motivation dehumanization: avoid affective costs. show stigmatized targets (e.g., drug addicts) relative nonstigmatized strongest those who are motivated emotional exhaustion. In Experiment 1, participants anticipated more exhaustion from...
The COVID-19 pandemic has extensively changed the state of psychological science from what research questions psychologists can ask to which methodologies use investigate them. In this article, we offer a perspective on how optimize new in pandemic’s wake. Because is inherently social phenomenon—an event that hinges human-to-human contact—we focus socially relevant subfields psychology. We highlight specific phenomena have likely shifted as result and discuss theoretical, methodological,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic and social fabric societies. One central strategies for managing public health throughout been through persuasive messaging collective behaviour change. To help scholars better understand moral psychology behind behaviour, we present a dataset comprising 51,404 individuals from 69 countries. This was collected International Collaboration on Social & Moral Psychology project (ICSMP COVID-19). science survey...
People often misattribute the causes of their thoughts and feelings. The authors propose a multinomial process model affect misattributions, which separates three component processes. first is an affective response to true cause affect. second apparent cause. third when source confused for real source. validated using misattribution procedure (AMP), uses misattributions as means implicitly measure attitudes. illuminates not only AMP but also other phenomena in researchers wish processes...
Compassion-the warm, caregiving emotion that emerges from witnessing the suffering of others-has long been considered an important moral for motivating and sustaining prosocial behavior. Some suggest compassion draws empathic feelings to motivate behavior, whereas others try disentangle these processes examine their different functions human prosociality. Many empathy, which involves sharing in others' experiences, can be biased exhausting, warm compassionate concern is more rewarding...
Empathy for pain is often described as automatic. Here, we used implicit measurement and multinomial modeling to formally quantify unintentional empathy pain: that occurs despite intentions the contrary. We developed identification task (PIT), a sequential priming wherein participants judge painfulness of target experiences while trying avoid influence prime experiences. Using modeling, distinguished 3 component processes underlying PIT performance: toward stimuli (Intentional Empathy),...
Abstract Empathy has received much attention in psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. In this article, I first discuss a motivated emotion regulation approach to empathy, outlining some recent advances empathy. then how can advance three questions about empathy: (1) How should we assess the boundaries between empathy other states? (2) empathic ability propensity? (3) automatic controlled propensities empathize? each case, suggest that methodological innovations reframe these outline...
Three studies examine how subtle shifts in framing can alter the mind perception of groups. Study 1 finds that people generally perceive groups to have less than individuals. However, 2 demonstrates changing a group from "a people" "people group," substantially increases perception-leading comparable levels between and 3 reveals this change influences people's sympathy for groups, an effect mediated by perception. We conclude minor linguistic big effects on are perceived-with implications...
It has often been argued that compassion is fundamental to morality. Yet people suppress for self-interested reasons. We provide evidence suppressing not cost free, as it creates dissonance between a person’s moral identity and his or her principles. instructed separate groups of participants regulate their compassion, feelings distress, freely experience emotions toward compassion-inducing images. Participants then reported how central morality was identities much they believed rules should...