October 18, 2021

What Do All These Stories of Vaccine Denial Deaths Do to Our Sense of Empathy?→

October 18, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Washington Post

October 6, 2021

October 18, 2021

Stuck In A Rut? Sometimes Joy Takes A Little Practice→

October 18, 2021/ ScienceSites

- NPR, Shots

June 29, 2021

June 30, 2021

Awe Appears To Be Awfully Beneficial→

June 30, 2021/ ScienceSites

- NPR, All Things Considered

June 29, 2021

March 03, 2021

Social Media Is Clouding Our Judgment About Health→

March 03, 2021/ ScienceSites

- Talking About Health, Psychology Today

February 23, 2021

Piercarlo Valdesolo

In The News

Op-Ed: How to Mix Compassion and Cooperation Into Social Distancing

COVID-19 is threatening our social ties because it scrambles the ways we normally support our friends and communities. — Los Angeles Times
Awesomeness Is Everything

Why encountering vastness makes us more spiritual, generous, and content. — The Atlantic
Why There Are No Aetheists At The Grand Canyon

Five studies conducted by Piercarlo Valdesolo and Jesse Graham were designed to elicit feelings of awe in subjects and see how that affected their sense of spirituality. — TIME

Recent Articles

The Paradox of Power: The Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Gratitude (PDF)
- The Journal of Social Psychology
Morality (PDF)
- The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology
Reply to Fincher et al.: Conceptual Specificity in Dehumanization Research Is a Feature, Not a Bug (PDF)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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