Publications & Working Papers

Erika Weisz, Mina Cikara (2020). Merely Increasing Action Options Increases Charitable Donation. Under review.

Erika Weisz, Patricia Chen, Desmond C. Ong, Ryan W. Carlson, Marissa D. Clark, Jamil Zaki (2020). A Brief Intervention to Motivate Empathy in Middle School. Under review.

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Erika Weisz, Mina Cikara (2020). Strategic Regulation of Empathy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. In press.

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Amit Goldenberg, Erika Weisz (2020). Don’t Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience. Harvard Business Review.

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Amit Goldenberg*, Erika Weisz*, Tim Sweeny, Mina Cikara, James Gross, *Denotes equal contribution (2020). The Crowd Emotion Amplification Effect. Psych Science. In press.

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Erika Weisz, Desmond C. Ong, Ryan W. Carlson, Jamil Zaki (2020). Building Empathy through Motivation-Based Interventions. Emotion.

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Erika Weisz (2020). This Psychological Concept Could Be Shaping the Presidential Election. Nautilus Magazine.

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Erika Weisz, Jamil Zaki (2018). Motivated empathy: a social neuroscience perspective. Current Opinion in Psychology, 24.

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Fernanda Herrera, Jeremy Bailenson, Erika Weisz, Elise Ogle, Jamil Zaki (2018). Building Long-Term Empathy: A Large-Scale Comparison of Traditional and Virtual Reality Perspective-Taking. PLoS, 13(10).

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Erika Weisz, Jamil Zaki (2017). Empathy-Building Interventions: A Review of Existing Work and Suggestions for Future Directions. Handbook of Compassion Science.

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Erika Weisz, Jamil Zaki (2017). The Case for Less Solidarity. Nautilus Magazine.

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Soo Youn Oh, Jeremy Bailenson, Erika Weisz, Jamil Zaki (2016). Virtually Old: Embodied Perspective Taking and the Reduction of Ageism Under Threat. Computers in Human Behavior, 60.

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