Stephanie D. Preston
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Stephanie D. Preston

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Stephanie D. Preston is professor of psychology and director of the Ecological Neuroscience Lab at the University of Michigan. She has an MA and PhD in behavioral neuroscience from the University of California at Berkeley, where she studied the impact of stress and risk on food-storing decisions in animals. Subsequently, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, where she used functional neuroimaging, psychophysiology, and behavioral research to understand how emotions impact empathy and decision making. Dr. Preston’s research is highly interdisciplinary, looking across species and methods to investigate the evolution and brain bases of complex behaviors. One line of her research examines empathy and altruism, focusing on how we feel into others' emotions and how caregiving influences altruism. Another line of work examines decisions about resources, such as acquiring and discarding material goods and efforts to save the environment. She applies these lessons in real-world contexts including to help the public understand and be motivated by products and messages for companies and NGOs.
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