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Brendan O'Connor serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University at Albany, where his research explores the interplay between cognitive processes and social behavior. He investigates how episodic memory and future-oriented imagination shape prosocial actions and moral decision-making in everyday contexts.
His core research areas include episodic memory, episodic simulation, social decision-making, prosocial behavior, and moral cognition. O'Connor employs behavioral and non-invasive neural methods to examine how remembering the past and imagining the future influence economic choices aimed at benefiting others, with direct applications to charitable giving and welfare-oriented behaviors.
He leads a laboratory focused on translating theoretical insights from memory and imagination studies into practical frameworks for understanding and promoting altruistic conduct in real-world social environments.
