Greg Depow is an Assistant Professor at Lakehead University and is the Principal Investigator of the Regulation of Empathy and Emotion Lab (REEL). The research of the REEL lab focuses on how individuals perceive and engage with the thoughts and emotions of other people, how they make decisions to invest effort for others, and how these and other experiences impact subjective well-being. We are particularly interested in how empathy can be regulated to improve outcomes for the empathizer and the target of empathy. Dr. Depow has explored these constructs in different contexts–in lab experiments, within organizations, on social media, and in everyday life. The lab is broadly interested in closing our aspirational gap of connecting with others and leading happy, meaningful lives.
Dr. Depow attended the University of the Fraser Valley where he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a Psychology Honours extension and a minor in Applied Ethical Political Philosophy. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, working with Dr. Michael Inzlicht at the Work and Play Lab. He was a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, as well as a Rechter Fellow in Positive Leadership at the University of Louisville, Center for Positive Leadership. He served as coordinator of the Social Personality Research Group and Vice President of the Psychology Graduate Student Association. In addition, Dr. Depow worked with Dr. Rachel Ruttan in the Morality Altruism Politics Emotions Lab (MAPEL) based out of the Rotman School of Management. He has also done applied research with industry partners such as Potential Project, and received the Ken Dion award from the Social Personality Research Group in 2024.
Dr. Depow completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California San Diego, Rady School of Management, working with Dr. Chris Oveis in the Empathy and Emotion Lab. He also wored with Dr. Amit Goldenberg in the Digital Emotions Lab at Harvard Business School. He has received Fellowships from the Social Sciences Human Research Council of Canada, the Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion at UCSD, and the Center for Digital Thriving at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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