Program

 

 PreConference Schedule

Wednesday, July 17th 2024

Location - Farset: PFC/02/025

9:30 - 10:00

Walk-in and Welcome words

10:00 - 10:45

Daryl Cameron

“Suffering and Situation Selection: A Motivated Empathy Perspective”

10:45 - 11:30

Anne Bartsch

"The Role of Empathy and Testimonials in Eudaimonic Media Experiences“ 

Coffee Break 11:30 - 11:45

11:45 - 12:30

Lasana Harris

“Flexible Social Cognition as a Proactive Empathy Regulation Strategy” 

12:30 - 13:15

Suzanne Oosterwijk

“The Psychology of Morbid Curiosity”

Lunch 13:15 - 14:15

14:15 - 15:00

Virginia Pallante

 “Empathy-driven bystander interventions in the wild” 

– Please note that Virginia Pallante will present on behalf of Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard

15:00 - 15:45

Flash Talks 1

Coffee Break 15:45 - 16:00

16:00 - 17:00

Flash Talks 2

 

Flash Talks

Exploring empathy, pity, and admiration as responses to testimonials of individuals with mental illness and their potential to reduce stigmatization

Freya Sukalla (Leipzig University) & Heather Shoenberger (Pennsylvania State University) 

Motives that Predict Engagement with Suffering

Anastassia Vivanco Carlevari, Suzanne Oosterwijk & Gerben van Kleef (University of Amsterdam) 

What Do Morbidly Curious Brains Look Like? An fMRI Resting-State Analysis of General Morbid Curiosity and People’s Fascination for True Crime

Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan (University of Graz)

Who watches fail clips? Exploring the personality traits of people who enjoy the suffering of others

Lilian Suter (Zurich University of Applied Sciences & University of Zurich)

Anger, sadness, or disgust? A systematic review on the role of emotion in explaining the effect of gruesome evidence on guilt decisions 

Janne van Doorn, Dante Hoek & Sigrid van Wingerden (Leiden University) 

Vicariously experienced threat: Sex differences, affective style, empathy, and perceived safety

Reginald B. Adams, Jr. & Natalie Strand (The Pennsylvania State University) 

Art of Witnessing: Engagement with moral violations in the art and non-art context 

Yağmur Özbay, Eftychia Stamkou & Suzanne Oosterwijk (University of Amsterdam)

Tales of Life: Social Curiosity for Positive and Negative Life Events of Culturally Close and Distant Others

Esther Niehoff (University of Amsterdam), Marret Noordewier (Leiden University), Gosia Goclowska (University of Bath) & Suzanne Oosterwijk (University of Amsterdam)