Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology, Emory University
Shensheng Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in Psychology at Emory University. His research broadly focuses on the cognitive and developmental underpinnings of humanness perception, a process that might shed light on diverse psychological phenomena, including the uncanny valley effect, face animacy perception, and schadenfreude.
Why does it feel good to see someone fail?
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