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PhD Candidate ยท Psychology ยท UC San Diego

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Thomas G. McCauley

PhD Candidate, University of California, San Diego Lecturer I - University of San Diego

I am a psychological scientist studying prosocial emotion, empathy, measurement, and the computational mechanisms that support helping behavior. My research combines experimental social psychology, psychometrics, and computational modeling to understand when people help others, how people learn from social outcomes, and how measurement choices shape psychological conclusions.