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Daryl Cameron
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Assoc Prof of Psych, Sherwin Early Career Prof in Rock Ethics Institute @Penn State. Directs Empathy & Moral Psych Lab, Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. Assoc Editor @Emotion. Father of four (twin dad), husband, loves ☕, 🍺, 🎶, 📸. Views are my own.
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · Nov 4
Just bumping this -- I'll be recruiting a new graduate student this cycle, to start in fall 2026. So will my colleagues Karen Gasper and Reg Adams. I'm currently the area coordinator. Reach out if you have questions about Penn State Social Psychology -- WE ARE!
dcameron.bsky.social Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · Oct 21
Although most of my photos right now are of State College autumn, here's Happy Valley from the sky this August. It was awe-inspiring to get this view.

So, come join us here! I'll be recruiting a graduate student to the Empathy & Moral Psychology (EMP) Lab during this cycle, to start in fall 2026.
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I had the good fortune to take part in one of the Bounded Rationality summer schools a long time ago (2009) and it was quite invigorating and rewarding to connect across disciplines. An early and formative experience tin that respect during grad school. I'd definitely encourage psych grads to apply!
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📣 Applications for the 23rd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open!

✨Join us in Berlin @arc-mpib.bsky.social June 08–16, 2026, to explore the topic of “Decision Making in the Age of AI”.

✏️ More details + application form (deadline: March 16): www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Reminder that we have the spring reception for the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making today on campus. Come hang out and learn about what we are working on and have planned for the spring.

Learn more at moralconsortium.psu.edu

RSVP here (refreshments provided):
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Consortium on Moral Decision-Making Spring Kickoff Reception | Liberal Arts Events
The Consortium on Moral Decision-Making is hosting a spring kick-off reception. All are welcome, whether they are returning affiliates or new people who maybe want to learn more about ethical and mora...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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This is amazing! Thank you so much to @jinxungoh.bsky.social and @lydiaemery.bsky.social for putting together an amazing guide to the Chicago food scene for those coming to #SPSP2026!
February 3, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.
December 27, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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Just one week til our “Social AI: A Philosophy Workshop”

🌟We will be joined by Pii Telakivi, Rob Clowes, Kris Goffin, Shahd Omar, Kesavan Thenagopal, Mike Barnes, Mercedes Corredor, Ben White, Leda Bario, Allister Lee, Àger Pérez Casanovas, Shane Glackin, Tom Roberts, & Joel Krueger 🌟
February 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Join us on Tuesday for the Spring Kickoff Event!

RSVP here: buff.ly/s9ImZWW
February 6, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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Sometimes you have one of those days when you feel, more than usual, how lucky it is to have a great team. As I walk into the weekend, grateful for the team of @amormino.bsky.social @jokretz.bsky.social @farvk.bsky.social @jdweng.bsky.social. It was a day when the holism of the EMP Lab stood out.
February 6, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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Got to welcome @jdweng.bsky.social my AI empathy seminar as a special guest today! In the snow flurry along Pattee Mall

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February 6, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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If you're in the Penn State area tomorrow stop by! We have several workshops and conferences upcoming this spring, and a seed grant RFP. Meet fellow researchers who study morality!

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ssripennstate.bsky.social Social Science Research Institute at Penn State @ssripennstate.bsky.social · 5d
The Consortium on Moral Decision-Making is hosting a spring kick-off reception in the Moore Building next Tuesday, February 10 from 4-5:30pm in the Atrium of Moore Building at the Penn State University Park campus. All are welcome. 🔗 buff.ly/s9ImZWW
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Welcome to the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making A collaborative hub dedicated to unraveling the intricate threads of ethical choices. As a multidisciplinary alliance of scholars, thinkers, and…
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February 5, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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Super proud advisor moment: kudos to @jdweng.bsky.social for his first first-author publication! With @minzlicht.bsky.social, we inverted the empathy selection task to look at preferences to receive empathy. We can speculate on what people want from AI, but a motivational account suggests we ask
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February 5, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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My new book is starting to arrive for those who pre-ordered it! Let’s change the way we think about democracy.

If you order a copy, please share a note and photo when it arrives!

Don’t give in to nihilism, friends: you matter, and we matter, and we are much stronger together.
karenb4good.bsky.social KarenB4Good @karenb4good.bsky.social · 10d
Just landed on my doorstep yesterday, a book by my friend @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social

On Mindful Democracy: A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World

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January 31, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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A reminder that how we talk about empathy, how to use it and expand it for those in need, can often matter at the level of policy and may shape what kinds of empathic choices seem possible. We discuss a recursive loop between policymaking and citizen reaction, as mutual motivated empathy regulation
dcameron.bsky.social Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 27d
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
Motivating Empathy and Moral Pluralism in Health Policy - C. Daryl Cameron, Paige Amormino, Joel E. Segel, 2026
Health policy is motivated by a variety of factors including moral concerns, values and convictions. Policymakers are motivated to consider how constituents and...
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January 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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"“It’s language used by bullies to bully.”

As a society, it's really important to call out and reject ableist hate when we see it. Language wars matter for the horizons of families.

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The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It
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January 27, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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Bailey Ober recognizing the situation in Minneapolis, the first MLB player to do so

#MinnesotaTwins #TwinsBaseball #MLB
January 26, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Talk with your family, friends, colleagues about why empathy and kindness are important. Because active choices to not care are being rewarded, and empathy as an ideal is at stake. Advice to mind one's business is a recipe for a callous default that most of us wouldn't want our own kids to embody.
January 26, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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For what it's worth, I think that the Minnesota Timberwolves cancelling a game on account of the killing was important. I remember early in the Covid-19 pandemic when the NBA started cancelling events. It stood out as a distinct marker, a sense of social norming, bellwether of something happening.
January 26, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Epic snowfall here ❄️🌨️
January 25, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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A song for winter. Beauty, finitude, death. Awe at the short breath of life and the power of collective moments. Rebirth
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The Hawthorne Passage (2016 - Remaster)
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January 24, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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genuinely stunning image
Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
January 24, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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Highlight of the week in my AI empathy senior seminar was reading the opening chapter of Suri and McLelland's new book "The Emergent Mind". They loved the metaphors of mind therein as a basis for thinking about what it would mean to study human empathy & morality, much less benchmark it against AI.
January 23, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Penn State campus at night in the snowfall ❄️🌨️
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Excited for my AI-empathy senior seminar to attend this as part of our course, later this spring. They really enjoyed the juxtaposition of "Lifecycle of Software Objects" to Sherry Turkle's work

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Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics: Ted Chiang | Liberal Arts Events
Award-winning author Ted Chiang, whose stories probe the moral dimensions of technology, will deliver the 2026 Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics. Chiang is the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Li...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:21 AM