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)