#173 Belén López-Pérez: Cruel To Be Kind, Empathy, Emotion Regulation, and Happiness
Dr. Belén López-Pérez is a Lecturer in Psychology at Liverpool Hope University in the UK, where she also directs the ChildLab. She concluded her PhD in Social psychology at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 2012, and her Postdoctoral research in Social and Developmental Psychology in the School of Psychology at Plymouth University. Her research interests include empathy and interpersonal emotion regulation across the lifespan, as well as happiness and wellbeing. Her current research projects are focused on interpersonal emotion regulation in childhood and developmental differences in emotion goals (i.e., what people would like to feel in different contexts).
In this episode, we talk about empathy, emotion regulation, and the unexpected relationship between empathy and cruelty. First, we talk about the several cognitive and emotional dimensions of empathy. Then, we discuss emotion regulation and how it relates to empathy, as well as the developmental stages children go through when it comes to emotion regulation. We also refer to the relationship between emotion regulation and happiness, and the perils of focusing too much on happiness. Finally, we talk about the relationship between empathy and cruelty.
Time Links:
Empathy is not a single phenomenon
Emotion regulation, and its relationship with empathy
The developmental stages of emotion regulation
The relationship between emotion regulation and happiness and wellbeing
The problem with focusing too much on happiness
Are there any links between personality and emotion regulation?
Empathic concern and personal distress
The “one-among-others” effect
The relationship between empathy and cruelty
In what conditions do people make others feel bad to help them?
Follow Dr. López-Pérez’s work!
Follow Dr. López-Pérez’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2JjNv28
Articles of Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2H9tY1W
Cruel to be kind: should you sometimes be bad for another’s good? (Aeon): https://bit.ly/2T7IYUZ
Emodiscovery: http://emodiscovery.com/
Relevant papers:
Can empathic concern be generalized from one person to others? Another positive side of the ‘one-among-others’ effect: https://bit.ly/2JiG1wy
Cruel to Be Kind: Factors Underlying Altruistic Efforts to Worsen Another Person’s Mood: https://bit.ly/2HBxnXh
Developmental differences in children’s interpersonal emotion regulation: https://bit.ly/2ClMil0
The role of cognitive emotion regulation on the vicarious emotional response: https://bit.ly/2UJlEKg