Greg Depow

@gregdepow.bsky.social

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Postdoc at UCSD/Harvard, PhD from University of Toronto. Studying #empathy #effort #wellbeing #socialmedia and #prosocial behaviour. #rstats #PhDad #openscience website: gregdepow.com

Two stick people speaking. One says "I used to think correlation implied causation" next panel, they say "then I took a statistics class. Now I don't." Third panel other person says "Sounds like the class helped." Original person replies "Well, maybe."

Shows two overlapping distributions of compassion, empathy efficacy, emotion sharing, personal distress, and perspective taking. On the left, those low in Single Item Trait Empathy, who don't consider themselves an empathic person, are lower in all but distress. On the right, those high in SITE who think of themselves as empathic have right-shifted distributions of empathy, but not distress. Underscores that lay conceptions of empathy tend not to include personal distress as a key component.

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A list of lab names with boxplots next to them showing effects of two comparisons.