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Upcoming Conference:
How the social brain experiences empathy
Sept 30, 2009; Gleacher Center, Downtown Chicago
This one-day conference led by Jean Decety will showcase some of the most important researchers in empathy today. Presentations will provide up-to-date knowledge on empathy ranging from brain circuits to patient-physician relationships, and will emphasize how many academic areas and applications, such as clinical psychology, education, psychotherapies, and others, can benefit from this new knowledge about the social brain.
Registration is free, but space is limited. More information & registration.
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
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Decety and Ickes have edited a new volume entitled The Social Neuroscience of Empathy, available in print starting April 20, 2009. View it here on Google books. |
John Cacioppo talks about Loneliness and Technology on BigThink
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John Cacioppo discusses the relationship between technology and loneliness on Big Think, a web resource for the public where experts share their views on issues and professional interests. This link leads you to a video interview. |
John Cacioppo's Loneliness on front page of New York Magazine (12/1/2008 issue)
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"One in every two apartments in Manhattan is occupied by a person living alone. But while the notion persists that the city is more coldhearted and isolating than a small town, new research suggests that the opposite is true-that New York is among the least likely places to feel lonely." Jennifer Senior, a writer for New York Magazine, writes on some implications of John Cacioppo and William Patrick's book Loneliness. |
Nick Epley video lectures featured in Financial Times
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"Financial Times posted a series of three video lectures featuring Nick Epley, Professor of Behavior Science and the Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, and his insights into how psychological research can give managers an edge in the workplace. The videos are titled "Making Unbaised Decisions," in which Epley shows how vital information is unconsciously distorted or omitted when making choices; "Mind Reading at Work," a look into bosses, colleagues and underlings; and "In Motivating Staff," in which Epley says money is an overrated reward for employees. To view these videos, visit www.ft.com/businesseducation/chicago." From The University of Chicago Chronicle, November 10, 2008, pg. 2. |
Jean Decety publishes in Biological Psychology
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Jean Decety, Professor of Psychology at the U of C with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry, recently published ahead of print an article entitled "Atypical empathetic responses in adolescents with aggressive conduct disorder: a functional MRI investigation" in Biological Psychology. In this article he and his colleagues found evidence for atypical neural responses to watching others in pain in adolescents possessing aggressive conduct disorder (read pdf here). To read more coverage in the press, follow the links below: http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1598838/study_shows_bullies_relish_inflicting_pain/ |
Nicholas Epley, Adam Waytz, and John Cacioppo win the SPS Theoretical Innovation Prize
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Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral economics at the Booth School of Business, Adam Waytz, a graduate student in the social psychology program, and John Cacioppo, the Tiffany & Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychology and the College, received the 2008 Theoretical Innovation Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology for their paper "On Seeing Human: A Three-Factor Theory of Anthropomorphism," published in Psychological Review, October 2007. Instead of focusing on the accuracy of anthropomorphic representations, Epley et al examined the cognitive mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, seeking to explain individual variation in the propensity to anthropomorphize. The tendency to anthropomorphize also provides insights into the inverse process of dehumanization. |
