Dr. Amber R. Abernathy is NSF’s featured woman in STEM this week. She is a psychologist who has published many studies on social dominance and wants to help increase people’s conscientiousness.
“Every human should have a physiological response when they feel empathy,” said Abernathy, the Mary-Charlotte Bayles Shealy Chair in Conscientious Psychology. This empathy is measured through electro dermal activity, similar to a lie detector test.