Emotions
Mixed Emotional Experiences
Can we feel at the same time two opposite emotions such as happiness and sadness?, What are the theoretical and applied implications of this question? With the objective of addressing these two question, we construed and validated new measures that aimed at assessing the nature of this kind of emotional experiences, and how they can influence on behavior
Analogical Emotional Scale (Carrera & Oceja, 2007)
Beyond a Single Pattern of Mixed Emotional Experience (Oceja & Carrera, 2009)
Joint influence of empathy and distress (Carrera, Oceja et al., 2012)
Vicarious Emotional Experiences
Observing other’s suffering may lead us to feel emotions such as empathy and personal distress. What are the differences between those two emotions? How do they influence on prosocial behavior? Is there a personal disposition to feel one over the other? Our research try to address these questions.
Vicarious Emotional Scale (Oceja et al., 2009)
Infant-like characteristics and empathy (Lishner, Oceja et al., 2008)
Overcoming Empathy-induced Partiality (Oceja, 2008)
Qualitative differences between empathy and personal distress (López-Pérez et al., 2015)
Measuring Dispositional Sympathy and Tenderness (López-Pérez, 2019)