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Overview

David DeSteno is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research spans several subfields including social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, family practice, public health, environmental and occupational health, and clinical psychology. The focus of their work is reflected in a range of topics such as empathy and medical education, clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, innovations in medical education, mindfulness and compassion interventions, religion, spirituality, and psychology, emotions and moral behavior, and psychological well-being and life satisfaction.

DeSteno has contributed to multiple recent papers, which include a diverse set of themes and publication venues:

  • What is clinical empathy? Perspectives of community members, university students, cancer patients, and physicians (2020) in Patient Education and Counseling
  • Gratitude reduces consumption of depleting resources. (2020) in Emotion
  • Intertemporal empathy decline: Feeling less distress for future others' suffering. (2024) in Emotion
  • Guilt underlies compassion among those who have suffered adversity. (2022) in Emotion
  • Gratitude and sustainability (2020) in Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)

Their work is published frequently in prominent venues, with multiple papers appearing in the journal Emotion. Other publication venues include Patient Education and Counseling, Arabixiv (OSF Preprints), Character Lab Tips, and Motivation and Emotion.

DeSteno collaborates with various researchers in their field. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Shanyu Kates
  • Judith A. Hall
  • Rachel Schwartz
  • Fred Duong
  • Yuan Niu

Best Publications

  • Gratitude and Prosocial Behavior: Helping When It Costs You

    Monica Y. Bartlett;David DeSteno

  • Manipulations of Emotional Context Shape Moral Judgment

    Piercarlo Valdesolo;David DeSteno

  • Pride and perseverance: the motivational role of pride.

    Lisa A. Williams;David DeSteno

  • Synchrony and the social tuning of compassion.

    Piercarlo Valdesolo;David DeSteno

  • The rhythm of joint action: Synchrony promotes cooperative ability

    Piercarlo Valdesolo;Jennifer Ouyang;David DeSteno

  • Beyond valence in the perception of likelihood: the role of emotion specificity.

    David DeSteno;Richard E. Petty;Duane T. Wegener;Derek D. Rucker

  • Meditation Increases Compassionate Responses to Suffering

    Paul Condon;Gaëlle Desbordes;Willa B. Miller;David DeSteno

  • Discrete Emotions and Persuasion: The Role of Emotion-Induced Expectancies

    David DeSteno;Richard E. Petty;Derek D. Rucker;Duane T. Wegener

  • Affective science and health: the importance of emotion and emotion regulation.

    David DeSteno;James J. Gross;Laura Kubzansky

  • Evolutionary Origins of Sex Differences in Jealousy? Questioning the “Fitness” of the Model:

    David A. DeSteno;Peter Salovey

  • Gratitude as moral sentiment: emotion-guided cooperation in economic exchange.

    David DeSteno;Monica Y. Bartlett;Jolie Baumann;Lisa A. Williams

  • Prejudice From Thin Air The Effect of Emotion on Automatic Intergroup Attitudes

    David DeSteno;Nilanjana Dasgupta;Monica Y. Bartlett;Aida Cajdric

  • Sex differences in jealousy: evolutionary mechanism or artifact of measurement?

    David DeSteno;Monica Y. Bartlett;Julia Braverman;Peter Salovey

  • Individual talker differences in voice-onset-time.

    J. Sean Allen;Joanne L. Miller;David DeSteno

  • Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue

    Piercarlo Valdesolo;David DeSteno

  • Suffering and compassion: The links among adverse life experiences, empathy, compassion, and prosocial behavior.

    Daniel Lim;David DeSteno

  • Fanning the flames of prejudice: The influence of specific incidental emotions on implicit prejudice.

    Nilanjana Dasgupta;David DeSteno;Lisa A. Williams;Matthew Hunsinger

  • Gratitude: Prompting behaviours that build relationships

    Monica Y. Bartlett;Paul Condon;Jourdan Cruz;Jolie Baumann

  • Jealousy and the threatened self: getting to the heart of the green-eyed monster.

    David DeSteno;Piercarlo Valdesolo;Monica Y. Bartlett

  • Mindfulness and Compassion: An Examination of Mechanism and Scalability

    Daniel Lim;Paul Condon;David DeSteno

  • The duality of virtue: Deconstructing the moral hypocrite.

    Piercarlo Valdesolo;David DeSteno

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Salovey
Peter Salovey Yale University
Paul L. Harris
Paul L. Harris Harvard University
Richard E. Petty
Richard E. Petty The Ohio State University
Derek M. Isaacowitz
Derek M. Isaacowitz Northeastern University
Derek D. Rucker
Derek D. Rucker Northwestern University
Duane T. Wegener
Duane T. Wegener The Ohio State University
Judith A. Hall
Judith A. Hall Northeastern University
Jennifer S. Lerner
Jennifer S. Lerner Harvard University
Nilanjana Dasgupta
Nilanjana Dasgupta University of Massachusetts Amherst
David A. Pizarro
David A. Pizarro Cornell University

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