S3 E01: Your Mind on Compassion with Dr. Julian Scheffer
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We are back for season 3! To start off the season we talk with Dr. Julian Scheffer about his research on compassion. Dr. Scheffer tells us about the cognitive costs of compassion and how effort may effect our decision to feel compassion for others. We discuss how compassion compares to empathy and why it is beneficial to feel compassion at all!
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Dr. Julian Scheffer
Research discussed
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Scheffer, J. A., Cameron, C. D., & Inzlicht, M. (2022). Caring is costly: People avoid the cognitive work of compassion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(1), 172–196. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001073
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Scheffer, J. A., Cameron, C. D., McKee, S., Hadjiandreou, E., & Scherer, A. M. (2022). Stereotypes about compassion across the political spectrum. Emotion, 22(3), 466–478. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000820
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Cameron, C. D., Conway, P., & Scheffer, J. A. (2022). Empathy regulation, prosociality, and moral judgment. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 188-195.
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Cameron, C. D., Scheffer, J. A., Hadjiandreou, E., & Anderson, S. (2022). Motivated empathic choices. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 66, 191-279.
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