Social Emotions
Social-emotional skills are vital to connecting with others. They might include experiencing empathy towards someone when you see them experiencing different emotions. They could extend to showing compassion or kindness towards another person in a difficult situation. Or maybe simply showing appreciation and thanks to a teammate for helping with a task. We study what factors contribute to empathy, kindness, compassion, and gratitude. We have established tools to improve some of these skills. And work with teams from different professions (e.g., social and health care; education) to help cultivate and explore the impact of social emotions in the workplace.
Example Publications
Santiesteban, I., Gibbard, C., Drucks, H., Clayton, N., Banissy, M.J. & Bird, G. (2021). Individuals with Autism Share Others’ Emotions:Evidence from the Continuous Affective Rating and Empathic Responses (CARER) Task. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51, 391-404.
Bowling, N.C., Botan, V., Santiesteban, I., Ward, J., & Banissy, M.J. (2019). Atypical Bodily Self-Awareness in Vicarious Pain Responders. Philos Transactions R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 9; 374 (1787): 20180361.
Rigato, S., Banissy, M.J., Thomas, R., Romanska, A., & Bremner, A. (2019). Cortical signatures of vicarious tactile experience in four-month-old human infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, 75-80.
De Guzman, M., Bird, G., Banissy, M.J., & Catmur, C. (2016). Self-other control processes in social cognition: From imitation to empathy. Philos Transactions R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 371 (1686).