Tamara Ambrona's research while affiliated with Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and other places

... Finally, we examined relatively stable, dispositional emotionality, and the results indicated adverse effects of sadness and anger on peer relationships and academic functioning. However, prior research has shown that negative emotions can also be helpful in certain situations for the attainment of specific goals (e.g., anger in contexts of confrontation; López-Pérez, Ambrona, & Gummerum, 2018;Tamir, 2016). The context of emotional experience and expressivity might shed further light on the complex interplay between emotions and adaptation. ...

... Con respecto a las diferencias de género, las mujeres puntuaron significativamente más alto en las tres variables relacionadas con la tendencia a sentir emociones vicarias: ternura ( (Ms = 4.88 vs. 4.81,y 4.46 vs. 4.11 para mujeres y hombres, respectivamente). Aunque el objetivo de este estudio no se refiere al análisis de estas diferencias, los resultados referidos a los ítems sobre la experiencia emocional está en línea con estudios anteriores (López-Pérez et al., 2019), en cambio presenta dos particularidades en cuanto a los valores: no es típico que el universalismo sea menos valorado por las mujeres ni que éstas valoren el poder tanto como los hombres (Schwartz & Rubel, 2005;Cuadrado, 2004). Con respecto a la versión, los resultados sólo mostraron una diferencia significativa: una puntuación más alta en estrés vicario para quienes contestaron a la versión nueva (Ms = 2.86 vs. 3.57), F(1, 196) = 6.21, p < .02. ...

... After the terrorist attacks in 2015, Parisians were prototypical targets of this mixed vicarious emotional experience formed by empathic concern and personal distress. Analyzing the emotion that prevails after a terrorist attack is interesting because empathic concern can be generalized in multiple-victim situations, promoting the helping of each people in need (see Oceja et al., 2017). Whereas we measure empathic concern and personal distress at the interpersonal level, we evaluate emotional climate (de Rivera and Páez, 2007) and esteem for humanity (Luke and Maio, 2009) at the collective level. ...

... 39,49 Strikingly, our results suggest that many facets of ED are also particularly marked in autistic adults, especially females, compared to people with BPD. 75 More specifically, we found that the "nonacceptance," "goals" and "strategies" subscale scores of the DERS were significantly elevated compared to BPDf. Although discrepant findings have been reported in the literature, probably due to the variety of methods used to measure ED, 76 these results are inconsistent with a number of studies which found that, although ED is not disorder-specific, higher DERS scores were specifically related to BPD. ...

... Additional studies have examined the effects of specific clothing on various psychological processes (Adam and Galinsky, 2019). For example, past research has shown that wearing certain clothes can influence mental abstraction (Burger and Bless, 2017), problem-solving (Van Stockum and DeCaro, 2014), and prosocial behavior (López-Pérez et al., 2016). However, the neuro-cognitive mechanisms underlying the impact of clothing on behavior have received less systematic investigation. ...

... Additionally, a tentative explanation for the stronger effect of empathic concern on pro-country self-sacrifice than on personal distress could be the higher generalization capacity of empathic concern, which has been supported in previous research. For example, Ambrona et al. (2016) found greater empathic concern (but not personal distress), and consequently helping behavior, toward an alone person, and toward the same person and other people when they were part of the same group (vs. other people who were not part of the same group). ...

... Some studies indicate the tension that tends to arise during encounters between students and individuals with disabilities. This may result from a lack of social and cultural awareness on the part of the students, which makes it difficult for them to understand the unique difficulties and circumstances of patients (López-Pérez et al., 2016). Most of the participants in our research had the opportunity to receive support during their volunteering from their program staff. ...

... Empathy plays a key role in psychosocial adjustment with significant involvement in a wide variety of social behaviors and optimal psychological development, especially in youth (López-Pérez, Ambrona, & Márquez-González, 2014). Empathy has been traditionally defined as "reactions of one individual to the observed experiences of another" (Davis, 1983, p. 113). ...

... They also focus on the match between the victimizer's desires and the outcomes of the transgression (Nunner-Winkler & Sodian, 1988) and have limited understanding that the victimizer has a sense of agency to act according to selfish desires or moral norms (Krettenauer et al. 2008). Additionally, young children may struggle to inhibit the attribution of positive emotions to the victimizer and to engage in counterfactual reasoning (e.g., weighing two alternatives rationally and choosing the more appropriate response; Gummerum et al., 2016). Consequently, young children are more likely to believe that victimizers should feel happy after fulfilling their desires. ...

... Emotional regulation significantly affects mental and physical health (Ambrona & López-Pérez, 2014;Luque et al., 2020). Positive affect is significantly related to health (Little et al., 2007) and low levels of positive affect predict the development of depression (Morris et al., 2009;Panaite et al., 2020). ...