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Interdisciplinary psychologist specializing in empathy, altruism, hoarding, and the environment.

Joined August 2020
Here I come #apschi22! For a busy mom, a conference with two hotel nights and an #amtrack ride is glorious. #freehbo #SleepingBeauty
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Free til Sept with Liu & Ackerman! Why do #OCD #washing and #hoarding correlate (excessive hygiene, messy/dirty space)? Washing = more #anxiety, fear internal threats; hoarding = more #depression, fear external threats. authors.elsevier.com/a/1dPDq… @um_psychology
New article in @pkanske special issue of Cortex with my awesome students. Beware the construct when studying clinical #empathy! 👻
Replying to @pkanske
.@profprestos et al. aim to understand empathy and its disorders through a focus on the neural mechanism sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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No need to prepare the next lecture! @steak_umm has it covered!
friendly reminder in times of uncertainty and misinformation: anecdotes are not data. (good) data is carefully measured and collected information based on a range of subject-dependent factors, including, but not limited to, controlled variables, meta-analysis, and randomization