Belén López-Pérez's research while affiliated with The University of Manchester and other places

... The negative side effects of wearing masks on reading emotions have been investigated in several studies since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (Pavlova & Sokolov, 2022). However, these findings rely heavily on empirical studies with adult participants, with the exception of nine studies (Bourke et al., 2023;Carbon & Serrano, 2021;Chester et al., 2022;Cuzzocrea et al., 2023;Gil & Le Bigot, 2023;Giordano et al., 2022;Gori et al., 2021;Ruba & Pollak, 2020;Schneider et al., 2022). It is questionable whether the results for adult participants can be generalized to school-aged children. ...

... Research on emotion regulation and wellbeing provide appropriate illustrations. For example, adults, adolescents, and even children utilize discrete emotions to achieve their goals, such as expressing happiness during collaboration, and anger, but not sadness, during confrontation (e.g., López-Pérez et al., 2023;Tamir & Ford, 2012). Likewise, researchers of positive psychology have emphasized the functions of positive emotions (e.g., Shiota et al., 2014), with discrete emotions serving a positive (adaptive) function distinct from their typically designated valence. ...

... Then, future studies should replicate our findings by comparing cortisol production profiles across the phases of the female menstrual cycle following a within-subject design and eventually using an ambulatory chromatographic ovulation test to determine the exact time point for ovulation. Finally, we did not measure other personal (e.g., emotional stability, self-esteem, psychological capital, Cenciotti et al., 2022;Zuffianò et al., 2023) and contextual (e.g., workrelated, and social demands, perceptions of social context, social support, Borgogni et al., 2023) variables that might have affected the associations between self-efficacy beliefs and cortisol parameters. Hence, future studies should include these variables to test more complex moderated mediation models that would help reach a better understanding of how and when RESE-NE and work SE can be related to HPA axis dysfunction. ...

... In another study, Høigaard et al. (2012) discovered that engagement and efficacy perceptions are correlated with job satisfaction and inversely associated with burnout and the intention to quit among newly qualified teachers in Norway. Burić et al. (2022) also conducted a three-wave longitudinal study among 3,010 teachers and found that stable parts of teacher self-efficacy (TSE) and work engagement have a positive correlation, TSE is positively associated with work engagement at a given time point, and work engagement has spill-over effects on TSE, but there is no reciprocal relationship. In another study, Gratacós et al. (2021) conducted a study with Spanish beginning teachers and found a strong positive correlation between transformational leadership (TR) and self-perceived efficacy, and the motivational and social dimensions of TR could be a determining Frontiers in Psychology 04 frontiersin.org ...

... These findings underscore the idea that empathy goes beyond hedonic motivations to improve others' affect. On the other hand, initial evidence showed no associations between mentalizing, empathic concern, and counter-hedonic IER goals in a preliminary cross-sectional study (Chavira Trujillo et al., 2022). Instead, Chavira Trujillo et al. (2022) found positive associations between counterhedonic IER motives and an empathic response other than empathic concern: personal distress. ...

... It advances children's emotional experiences research through exploration of Chinese children's perceptions of memorable parent-child tourism. A comprehensive review of children's emotional experiences research suggests that most studies have been conducted in daily or familiar scenarios (5)(6)(7). However, there are considerable differences between daily and tourism scenarios (8,9). ...

... These findings suggest that third-party participants adopted the perspective of victims instead of acting as impartial judges between victims and perpetrators. Thus, TPP may be more driven by retaliatory purposes than impartial justice (Jordan et al., 2016;Stallen et al., 2018;Gummerum et al., 2022). Importantly, the identifiability effect is mediated by changes in participants' reference points of inequity rather than the weights assigned to inequity aversion. ...

... Sociomoral emotions such as these serve multiple functions, particularly in the context of large coordination problems such as curbing the spread of COVID-19. For instance, López-Pérez et al. (2022) identified how individuals preferred to induce shame in COVID-19 rule violators to teach them a lesson; in other words, coronashaming was inflicted on transgressors of lockdown rules. ...

... However, some personality psychologists have also stressed the role of positivity (i.e., a general evaluative disposition to see oneself, one's life, and one's future under a positive outlook; Caprara et al., 2012) as a personal strength during the pandemic for both adults (Thartori et al., 2021) and children (Sette et al., 2022). Indeed, individuals high in positivity are more likely to possess the motivational resources to cope with the emotional challenges caused by the pandemic and protect themselves (and the people around them) by adhering to the containment rules (Thartori et al., 2021). ...

... The process by which emotion is regulated on an individual's own or through the help of others is defined as intrapersonal or interpersonal emotion regulation, respectively. Interpersonal emotion regulation (IER) plays an important role in a variety of interpersonal relationships, i.e. parent-child (Reindl et al., 2018), teacher-student (Sun et al., 2021) and friend relationships (Kwon and Ló pez-Pérez, 2022). Surprisingly, there has been only limited research on IER between couples (Jitaru and Turliuc, 2022). ...