Gregory J. Depow

PhD Social Psychology

Publications and Media

Published Articles

Inlzicht, M., Sparrow, T.B., Depow, G.J., Chronic Cannabis Use in Everyday Life: Emotional, Motivational, and Self-Regulatory Effects of Frequently Getting High. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1-12. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506241245744

Vaidis DC, Sleegers WWA, van Leeuwen F, et al….Depow, G.J., Inzlicht, M.,….Priolo, D. A Multilab Replication of the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2024;7(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231213375

Depow, G.J., Lin, H. & Inzlicht, M. Cognitive effort for self, strangers, and charities. Sci Rep 12, 15009 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19163-y

Pollerhoff, L., Stietz, J., Depow, G. J., Inzlicht, M., Kanske, P., Li, S.-C., & Reiter, A. M. F. (2022). Investigating adult age differences in real-life empathy, prosociality, and well-being using experience sampling. Sci Rep, 12(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06620-x

Depow, G. J., Francis, Z., & Inzlicht, M. (2021). The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life. Psychological science32(8), 1198–1213. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797621995202*

*Winner of 2020 UTSC annual Best Paper Award

Francis, Z., Depow, G. J., & Inzlicht, M. (2021). Do early birds share their worms? How prosocial behaviour and empathy vary across the day. Journal of Research in Personality, 90, 104055. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104055

Conference Presentations

Society for Affective Science (SAS) Conference 2023
A Positive Empathy Intervention to Improve Subjective Well-being on Social Media https://osf.io/hqk83 (see below for 30 second video explaining this work)

York Univeristy of Toronto Social Personality Abnormality (YUTSPA) Conference 2022
Describing Empathy in Daily Life https://osf.io/c3bzh/

American Psychological Association Annual Convention 2021
Symposium: What is Empathy? New Insights in Theory and Measurement https://osf.io/5xq9c/
Talk: The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life https://osf.io/58vhj/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGJMpBzNhwY

Association for Psychological Science Virtual Convention 2021
Deciding who to help: Prosocial Apathy and the Role of Self-other Overlap: https://osf.io/fj4mx/

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention 2021
Spare a thought for others: Self-other Overlap and the Subjective Value of Mental Effort: https://osf.io/qusmx/

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention 2020
A Representative Experience Sampling Study of Empathy in Everyday Life: https://osf.io/bprwg/

Press Coverage

Everyday Empathy Press

Forbes Magazine (Japanese Version), 2nd article

The Rotman Insights Hub

Toronto Star

The New York Times

Greater Good Magazine

Named one of GreaterGood’s “Top 10 Insights from the Science of a Meaningful Life”

Psychology Today

Harvard Business Review

Neuroscience News

UTSC Press Release

World Economic Forum

MedicalExpress

MirageNews

Tekcrispy blog

California School Business News

New York Magazine (Intelligencer)

Chronic Cannabis Use Press

Forbes

Filter Magazine

Norml

Labroots

High Times

Newsweek

Neuroscience News

Science Magazine

Earth

Phys

Benzinga Edge

The Print

Mirage News

The Swift Telecast

Daily Geek Show

Zap

Radio and Podcast Appearances

Ottawa Now with Kristy Cameron: CFRA 580 News Talk Radio (@ 17:52)

https://www.iheartradio.ca/580-cfra/audio-podcasts/ottawa-now-april-21-2023-hour-2-1.19561936?mode=Article

Doing Well: The Well-being Science Insights Podcast

Audio

Video

Explaining some current research in 30 seconds, with Dan Mirea (https://nivlab.princeton.edu/people/dan-mircea-mirea).