Expanding Empathy 2024: Empathy, Forgiveness, and Conflict
Channel: Rock Ethics Institute
Date: 2024-03-29

Organized under the leadership of Daryl Cameron, who is Sherwin Early Career Professor in Penn State's Rock Ethics Institute, associate professor of psychology, director of the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making and senior research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Expanding Empathy is an international, interdisciplinary examination of empathy and moral decision-making processes.

This first installment of Expanding Empathy 2024 focuses on empathy, forgiveness and conflict. Each speaker gives short talks followed by conversation with each other and the audience in the second hour.

Hosted by Daryl Cameron, this event features the following contributors: 
-- Psychologist Sa-kiera Hudson of the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley discussing empathy and “counter-empathy,” or schadenfreude.
-- Philosopher Felipe De Brigard of Duke University will discussing the psychological processes and ethical implications of forgiveness in Colombia.
-- Psychologist Eran Halperin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will discussing empathy and the Israel-Palestine conflict.