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What we believe about supporting others in distress: Implications for providing social regulatory support and subsequent well-being

2026-01-29

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<p>When someone shares their troubles with us, how do we decide how to respond? While decades of research has characterized how people talk about emotional events, less is known about how people choose to respond to others' distress. To address this issue, we bridged research from affective science and social psychology to develop the Regulator Beliefs about Social Regulation (RBSR) scale, which measures an indivi...

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Literature Corpus work: 4ddac08e-474b-546f-9d1d-d53ab99f2cfe
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qz5bu_v1

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