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CURRICULUM VITAE

Piercarlo Valdesolo

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Position: Contact Numbers: Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Home: 857-277-0287 Keiter Fellow Cell: 978-407-2463 Amherst College

Address: Internet Correspondence: Department of Psychology [email protected] Amherst College www.amherst.edu Amherst, MA 01002

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Social Psychology, Northeastern University, 2006-2008 Beyond Emotion and Reason: The Social Function of Morality

M.S. Social Psychology, Northeastern University, 2004-2006 Manipulations of Emotional Context Shape Moral Judgment

B.A. Psychology, Amherst College, 2003 High honors, Psi Upsilon Prize for preeminence in scholarship and citizenship.

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND CURRENT PROJECTS

 Influence of emotion on social judgment and moral decision making (judgments of guilt, intent, fairness).  Role of emotions in prosocial behavior and the facilitation of interpersonal and intergroup relations.  Social function of coordinated action and synchrony.

PUBLICATIONS Valdesolo, P. & DeSteno, D.A. (invited submission). The state of moral emotions. Emotion Review, 2010. Valdesolo, P. & DeSteno, D.A. (revision submitted to Emotion). The rhythm is going to get you: Synchrony and the Social Tuning of Compassion-based altruism

Valdesolo, P. & DeSteno, D.A. (2008). The Duality of Virtue: Deconstructing the Moral Hypocrite. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44 (5), 1334-1338. *(Editor’s choice, Science, May 2008)

Valdesolo, P. & DeSteno, D.A. (2007). Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue. Psychological Science, 18 (8), 689- 690.

Valdesolo, P. & DeSteno, D.A. (2006). Manipulations of Emotional Context Shape Moral Decision Making. Psychological Science, 17 (6), 476- 477.

Desteno, D.A., Valdesolo, P., & Bartlett, M.Y. (2006). Jealousy and the threatened self: Getting to the heart of the green-eyed monster. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91 (4), 626-641.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW AND IN PREPARATION

Valdesolo, P & DeSteno, D.A. (in prep). Altruists that stick out hammer themselves back down: The social costs of helping.

Valdesolo, P. & DeSteno, D.A. (in prep). The Buzzing of the Hive: Effects of Rhythmic Synchrony on cooperative action. DeSteno, D.A & Valdesolo, P. (book in prep). Vice and Virtue: The science of character.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Valdesolo, P & DeSteno, D.A. (Oct, 2010) The Social Tuning of Compassion: the long and the short of altruism. Paper to be presented at the 3rd Workshop on 'Social and Moral Norms in Intentional Action', University of Oslo, Norway.

Valdesolo, P & DeSteno, D.A. (August 2009) Egoism and Altruism: Compassion on Two Levels. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Leuven, Belgium.

Valdesolo, P & DeSteno, D.A. (May, 2009) The Social Tuning of Compassion. Paper presented as part of symposium Talk is Cheap: Prosocial Behavior in Action (Chair) at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

Valdesolo, P. & DeSteno, D.A. (February, 2009) The Social Tuning of Compassion: the long and the short of altruism. Poster presented at the Emotion preconference, at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.

Valdesolo, P. (August, 2008) For whom do we feel? Similarity and empathy as mediators for Moral Interpersonal and Intergroup Behavior . Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Valdesolo, P. & DeSteno, D.A. (May, 2008) Perceptions of Similarity Determine Empathy-Based Altruism. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Valdesolo, P. (February, 2008) On Villians and Victims: Group Membership as a Determinant of Emotion-based Moral Judgment. Poster presented at the Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Preconference, at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. Valdesolo, P. (August, 2006). Contextual Sensitivity of Moral Judgment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Atlanta, GA.

Valdesolo, P. (May, 2006). Manipulations of Emotional Context Shape Moral Decision Making. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY.

DeSteno, D., Valdesolo, P., & Bartlett, M. (January, 2005). Jealousy and the threatened self. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

INVITED TALKS AND COLLOQUIUA

Hampshire College, School of Cognitive Science, Fall 2008 Amherst College, Guest Lecturer, Religion in Scientific Perspective, Fall 2008 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Social Colloquium, Spring 2009 University of Oslo, Workshop on 'Social and Moral Norms in Intentional Action', Fall 2010

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor Seminar in Social Psychology (Northeastern, Fall ’07) Psychology of Morality (Amherst College, Fall ’08 and Fall ‘09) Figuring Out Who to Blame (Amherst College, Winter ’09) Social Function of Emotion (Amherst College, Spring ’09) Political Ideology (Amherst College, Spring ’09) Statistics and Experimental Design (Amherst College, Spring ’10)

Teaching Assistant/Lecturer Introduction to Statistics Research Methods in Personality Psychology Research Methods in Social Psychology Social Psychology Lab Undergraduate Honors Advisees

Tiffany Lim (2009) Jake Duker (2009) Jessica Mestre (expected 2010) Wen Zhang (expected 2010) Jennifer Ouyang (expected 2010)

Other Research Assistant, Northeastern University, 2003-2004 Tutor: Academic tutor and squash coach for middle and high school students (Squashbusters program, www.squashbusters.org, 2003-2005) Men’s and Women’s Squash Coach: Northeastern University squash team (2004 – 2007) Men’s Assistant Squash Coach: Amherst College, ’08-‘10 Faculty Liaison to Men’s Soccer team Amherst College ’08–‘10 Faculty Liaison to Men’s Squash team Amherst College ’08-’10

AD HOC REVIEWING

Cognition European Journal of Social Psychology Emotion Journal of Applied Social Psychology Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Motivation and Emotion Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Psychological Science

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Psychological Association Society for Personality and Social Psychology Association for Psychological Science Society for Philosophy and Psychology Boston Emotion Research Group International Society for Research in Emotions

POPULAR PRESS COVERAGE OF RESEARCH

Emotion and Moral Judgment “Blood on the Tracks” - Boston Globe (August, 2006) Counterpoint 93.7 FM (October, 2006) Mind Makes Right: Brain Damage, Evolution, and the Future of Morality - Washington Post/Slate Magazine (March, 2007)

Moral Hypocrisy Editor’s Choice – Science (May, 2008) “Do as I Say, Not as I Do” Newsweek (June 23rd, 2008) Deep down, we can’t fool even ourselves – NY Times (July 1st, 2008) Why we’re all moral hypocrites - MSNBC (July 7th, 2008) Just a Moral Hypocrite – LA Times (July 24, 2008)

Authored Popular Press Articles Come Together: Our Need to Cooperate – Mind Matters, Scientific American (April 21, 2009) Resisting Temptation – Mind Matters, Scientific American (Nov 3, 2009)