Lecture on Empathy and Neuroethics - April 5

The IU Institute for Advanced Study and the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions present the following lecture.

Jean Decety will lecture on "Evolutionary and Neurobiological Mechanisms of Empathy: What Makes Humans Special?"

Monday, April 5, 2010
4:00 p.m.
Georgian Room, Indiana Memorial Union

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Decety is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He is also co-director of the Brain Research Imaging Center at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

The lecture is part of a year-long Interdisciplinary Faculty Workshop on Empathy led by John Bodnar, director of the IU Institute for Advanced Study, and Richard Miller, director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. See http://www.indiana.edu/~ias/empathy/ for more details about the workshop.