Looking forward to @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026 in Pittsburgh this week, where I will speak on AI empathy in a session by @gregdepow.bsky.social & Leif Anderson, along with @anatperry.bsky.social. Ontology of empathy, and pierogies, a balanced meal. I may arrange an AI #empathy popup coffee ☕
1/ New paper in Communications Psychology: Against Frictionless AI. Led by my student Emily Zohar and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social.
The argument: AI's greatest selling point is also its problem.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Our work suggests wise empathy is a viable tool to improve well-being on social media and a potential alternative to banning social media, while elucidating how empathy can be regulated to improve well-being. S/o to @minzlicht.bsky.social, @chrisoveis.bsky.social, and Emily Zohar. #socialmedia 4/4
These changes in online experiences caused increased well-being when participants had browsed social media recently. In particular, the well-being difference between wise empathy and control participants became significant when participants had browsed for about 12 of the last 30 minutes. 3/4
Participants who learned wise empathy experienced more appreciative joy, positive emotion sharing, and compassion for suffering, with less personal distress, negative emotion sharing and social comparison. They learned to care rather than share for suffering 😢 and share not compare for joy 😀. 2/4
Preprint of "Wise Empathy Improves Well-being on Instagram" is now available: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Effects of social media on well-being vary, and depend greatly on online experiences. Here, we present a wise empathy intervention to change digital experiences and improve well-being. #empathy 1/4
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No, I'll be at the Thunder Bay campus! Let me know if you have any insider tips :)
Thank you, Andrea! 🇨🇦
Thank you! 🥳🍻
Thank you, Harrison!!
Thank you, Brett! Appreciate it.
Excited to share: This summer I'm starting as an Assistant Professor at @lakeheaduniversity.bsky.social! 🥳 I'll be continuing my research on empathy, teaching, and mentoring students. Prospective students interested in empathy are welcome to reach out. Grateful to my family, colleagues, and mentors!
Excited to see this out in print in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. It's the first publication with @amormino.bsky.social in the EMP Lab, along with Joel Segel from Health Policy and Administration. At a pivotal moment for empathy, we consider its role for policymaking 1/n
I wrote a piece with Nick Hobson in Harvard Business Review (@hbr.org) on how leaders can use empathy wisely to help their employees feel supported while benefitting their own well-being. Check it out and share let me know what you think. hbr.org/2026/01/five...
#empathy #leadership
dySEM package logo of two gender/sex-ambiguous figures holding onto a collection of rainbow-coloured balloons in a fashion resembling an SEM path diagram
Pleased to share for those using #rstats for analyzing #dyadic data, that we released a major update of dySEM on CRAN (now ver. 1.4.1) *just* before the winter break.
New functionality for scripting/outputting dyadic SEMs, along with (much) more test coverage! 🧵
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Some good resources on mediation and design-based alternatives in this thread.
Here are two articles I've found useful.
On mediation in an SEM framework:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
On conceptual issues surrounding mediation and other path models:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Good to hear, appreciate that!
I look forward to giving this a read, @mjcrockett.bsky.social! Thanks for sharing.
Excited to announce a new open-access EMP Lab paper on empathic AI: an interdisciplinary collaboration between psychology, philosophy, & engineering on motivated empathy expression and reception with social robots.
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@psuliberalarts.bsky.social
@rockethics.bsky.social
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I quite enjoyed answering questions about what got me interested in empathy, what surprised and interested me in a recent paper on state and trait empathy, and how I think about some of the interpersonal implications of my research. Thank you to @theloveconsortium.bsky.social for the opportunity!
Thank you, @kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social 🙏😊
Recently presented at @theloveconsortium.bsky.social's Virtual Symposium on Empathy as an Interpersonal Process with Dr. Kotiuga and Dr. Monroy. I presented on how empathy predicts perceptions of partner responsiveness across positive and negative emotional contexts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyRA...
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Excited to have you @gregdepow.bsky.social!
We hope you'll join us next week.
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