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Yoonseo Zoh

@yoonseozoh.bsky.social

PhD student in Psychology at Princeton studying how people make sense of right and wrong

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Yoonseo Zoh @yoonseozoh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My paper is out in PNAS Nexus!! In this paper, we examine how people make moral decisions in situations where harm to one person is weighed against harm to many 🔗: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Decomposing the neurocomputational mechanisms of deontological moral preferences

Abstract. Research on the neurocomputational mechanisms of moral judgment has typically focused on contrasting “utilitarian” preferences to impartially max

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thank you Yoonseo Zoh (zohyos7.github.io) for sharing your work with us on "Intuitive Theories in Moral Cognition". Intuitive theories structure how people represent dilemmas, how they generalize to new contexts, and how they switch between representations based on resource-rational constraints.

M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

Abstract

When we empathize with someone going through something, we often draw on our past experiences with the someone and the something. These kinds of experiences ground "thick empathy", a form of empathy that has been largely overlooked in the psychology and neuroscience literature. Consider how a mother, empathizing with her daughter about to give birth, can draw on her own experience of childbirth, and her relationship with her daughter, to deeply grasp what her daughter is going through in a way that others who lack those experiences cannot. I argue that thick empathy deserves more empirical attention because it is associated with well-being and helps us build networks of effective mutual social support. My analysis highlights novel risks and dilemmas posed by "empathy machines" that promise to enhance or even replace human empathy and are becoming increasingly popular as a potential solution to widespread loneliness. Even when empathy machines provide value to individuals, their widespread adoption risks imposing collective emotional and epistemic costs that ultimately make it harder for us to empathize well.

Keywords: empathy, understanding, experience, thick description, ethnography, phenomenal knowledge, interpersonal knowledge, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, chatbots

Yoonseo Zoh @yoonseozoh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’m thrilled to share that our paper is now published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General!🧵👇 psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...