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Cameron featured on podcast about empathy

Sep 15, 2025

On WPSU's "Reach" podcast, Daryl Cameron explains empathy as sharing feelings, perspective-taking, and compassion. It’s flexible, can be learned, and sometimes causes challenges like burnout. His research shows empathy isn’t limited; people can grow empathy for both humans and animals, emphasizing…
News Topics: EmpathyConsortium on Moral Decision-MakingWPSUPodcast
EIC Podcast Episode 24

New Evidence-to-Impact Podcast Episode Explores the Destigmatization and Recovery of the Opioid Crisis

Sep 5, 2025

We are back! We have a discussion with Denise Holden, founder and CEO of the RASE Project, a recovery community organization that has since expanded outside of Pennsylvania and Dr. Sarah Kawasaki, the Chief of Addiction Medicine, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine at Penn…
News Topics: EIC PodcastPodcastOpioidsRecovery
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Cameron featured on podcast about empathy

Jul 30, 2025

Daryl Cameron, director of the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making and Sherwin Early Career Professor, was recently a panelist on empathy on the podcast "Maine Calling". Listen to the episode here.
News Topics: EmpathyConsortium on Moral Decision-MakingPodcastCollege of the Liberal ArtsRock Ethics Institute
Podcast with Dr. Aliza and Rob Turrisi

Teens and drinking: What parents need to know and how they can influence behavior​​​​​​​

Jul 30, 2024

Parents of teens and young adults can help keep their kids safer from the dangers of drinking, says Rob Turrisi, Penn State professor of biobehavioral health and SSRI cofund. Learn more in this new episode of the Raising Good Humans podcast with Dr. Aliza.    
News Topics: AlcoholTeensPodcastSSRI CofundsCSUASubstance Use
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Podcast, book explore disagreements between social order and social justice

Oct 10, 2023

Why do we disagree about the causes of and solutions to social inequality? What explains our different viewpoints on Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, income inequality, and immigration? Penn State professors John Iceland and Eric Silver, co-authors of the new book “Why We Disagree About Inequality,”…
News Topics: Social JusticePRI AssociateMcCourtney Institute for DemocracyPodcast
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Frankenberg discusses racial segregation in schools on new podcast

Sep 21, 2023

Erica Frankenberg, SSRI associate director and professor of education and demography, was featured in a Policy in Brief podcast that examined ‘Segregation in our Schools.’  In this podcast, Frankenberg discusses the racial segregation that marginalized students have faced over the past few…
News Topics: PodcastSegregationCollege of Education
Growing Impact Podcast

'Growing Impact' podcast examines effects of flooding on substance use, support

Jul 10, 2023

The latest episode of the "Growing Impact" podcast explores the world of substance use and addiction through the lens of environmental disasters. Social Science Research Institute cofund Kristina Brant and her team are investigating how flooding in rural areas can affect drug…
News Topics: Institutes of Energy and the EnvironmentPodcastOpioidsSubstance UseClimate Change
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Podcast reveals how daily stress may affect our health as we age

Jul 7, 2023

From work demands to family responsibilities to social expectations, most of us spend our lives bouncing from one stressor to another, all the while contending with a continuous onslaught of digital information feeds. True relaxation can be hard to find, even with an ever-growing variety of books,…
News Topics: PodcastAging

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