TAMARA AMBRONA BENITO, Ph.D.
CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION:
Since September 2016: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
September 2013- September 2016 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Universidad de Burgos, Spain.
September 2011-August 2013. PART TIME PROFESSOR. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
EDUCATION:
January 2013. Ph.D. in Psychology. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
June 2008. Bachelor in Psychology. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Since January 2015: Construct level in the prediction of social behaviour: risk and prosocial behaviours (PSI2014-53321P). Funding Entity: Economic and competitive Ministry. Position: Researcher.
Sept 2014-Sept 2015: Colaborative proyect with Plymouth University. Funding Entity: Banco Santander UK. Position: Researcher.
July-2013 to December-2014: Promotion of the humanitarian action in the Spanish and Latin-American context: Psychosocial analysis of values profile, emotional dispositions and scope of action. Funding Entity: UAM-Santander. Position: Research
January-2012 to December-2014: Emotional episodes: Experience, expression, action, and knowledge. PSI2011-28720/PSIC (MEC). Funding Entity: Ministry of Education and Culture. Position: Researcher.
January-2009 to December-2011: Analysis of the experience, expression, and behaviour produced by complex emotions. PSI2008-04849/PSIC (MEC). Funding Entity: Ministry of Education and Culture. Position: Researcher.
January-2005 to December-2008: Characterization of the emotional experience: conceptualization, description and behavioral consequences. SEJ2005-06307/PSIC (MEC). Funding Entity: Ministry of Education and Culture. Position: Researcher.
PUBLICATIONS
López-Pérez, B., Oceja, L., Ambrona, T. y Carrera, P. (accepted 2017). Sympathy and Tenderness as Components of Dispositional Empathy: Predicting Helping and Care Behaviors. Current Psychology.
Oceja, L.; Ambrona, T.; López-Pérez, B.; Stocks, E.; & Carrera, P. (accepted 2017). Local versus Global Perceptual Scope, Empathic Concern, and Helping Preferences in Multiple-Victim Situations. The Spanish Journal of Social Psychology.
López-Pérez, B., Ambrona, T.,Gummerum M. (2016). Interpersonal emotion regulation in Asperger's syndrome and borderline personality disorder. British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 2017 Mar;56(1):103-113. doi: 10.1111/bjc.12124
Ambrona, T.; Oceja, L.; López-Pérez, B.; & Carrera, P. (2016). Can empathic concern be generalized from one person to others? Another positive side of the ‘one-among-others’ effect. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 57, 547–553.
López-Perez, B., Ambrona, T., Wilson, E. & Khalil, M. (2016). The effect of enclothed cognition on empathic responses and prosocial behaviour. Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000273
Gummerum, M., López-Pérez, B., Ambrona, T. y Rodriguez, S. (2016).Children’s Moral Emotion Attribution in the Happy Victimizer Task: The Role of Response Format. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 177(1):1-16.
López-Pérez, B., Ambrona, T., Hanoch, Y. (2016). Influence of the type of patient in the emotional response of nurses and nursing students. Nurse Education in Practice, 19, 7-11.
López-Pérez, B., & Ambrona, T. (2015). The role of cognitive emotion regulation on the vicarious emotional response. Motivation & Emotion, 39, 299-308.
López-Pérez, B., Carrera, P., Ambrona, T. & Oceja, L. (2014). Testing the Qualitative Differences between Empathy and Personal Distress: Measuring Core Affect and Self-orientation. The Social Science Journal, 51, 676-680.
Oceja, L., Heerdink, M., Stocks, E., Ambrona, T., & López-Pérez, B., Salgado, S. (2014). Empathy, awareness of others and action: How feeling empathy for one-among-others motivates to help the others. Basic and Applied Social Psychology , 36, 111-124.
López-Pérez, B., Ambrona, T. & Márquez-González, M. (2014). TECA-NA: Cognitive and Affective Empathy Questionnaire for Children and Teenagers. Behavioral Psychology, 22, 5-18.
Ambrona, T. & López-Pérez, B. (2014). A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between positive and negative affect and health. Psychology, 8, 859-863.
López-Pérez, B., Ambrona, T., Gregory, J., Stocks, L. & Oceja, L. (2013). Perspective-Taking Strategies, Empathic Concern, and Personal Distress among Professional Nurses and Nursing Students. Nurse Education Today, 33, 334-338.
Carrera, P., Oceja, L., Caballero, A., Muñoz, D., López-Pérez, B. y Ambrona, T. (2012). I feel so sorry! Tapping the joint influence of empathy and personal distress on helping behavior. Motivation and Emotion, 37, 335-345.
López-Pérez, B., Ambrona, T. & Márquez-González, M. (2012) Efficacy of a brief emotional intervention programme to increase the emotional competence in children at primary school. Revista Española de Orientación y Psicopedagogía, 23, 23-49.
Oceja, L., Ambrona, T., López-Pérez, B., Salgado, S. & Villegas, M.S. (2010). When the victim is one among others: empathy, awareness of others and motivational ambivalence. Motivation and Emotion, 34,110-119.
Oceja, L., López-Pérez, B., Ambrona, T. & Fernández-Pinto, I. (2009) Measuring the Individual Differences in the Disposition to Feel Empathy and Distress: The Vicarious Experiences Scale. Psicothema 21, 171-176.
CONFERENCES
2016:Emotional preferencies and results expectatives in children with Asperger Syndrom. IX Motivation and Emotion Meeting. Madrid. Spain
2016:Interpersonal emotion regulation in person with Asperger y TLP Syndroms. IX Motivation and Emotion Meeting. Madrid. Spain.
2016:Motivation and virtual teams. IX Iberoamerican Meeting. Murcia. Spain.
2016:Influence of evaluation method on short and long term learning. IX Iberoamerican Meeting. Murcia. Spain.
2014:Analysis os social exclusion process and emotional habilities in childrens. Internacional sociale servises. Palencia. Spain.
2014:Perceiving individuality in the needy: Motivational and behavioral implications. Motivation and Emotion Meeting. Granada. Spain.
2014:Emotion regulation and vicariuos emotions related. Motivation and Emotion Meeting. Granada. Spain.
2013: Provoking and managing the generalization of the empathy-altruism link by presenting the individual as one among others. XIV Annual meeting SPSP. New Orleans.
2013: Is there a motive with the ultimate goal of increasing the welfare of the world? The case of quixoteism. XIV Annual meeting SPSP. New Orleans.
2013: Immorality from Quixoteism: When helping and normative behavior conflict. VI Annual Meeting. Society for the Study of Motivation. Washington (USA)
2011: Analyzing the differences between two vicarious emotions: empathy and personal distress. XVI General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Stockholm (Sweden).
2011: Motivational conflict provoked by presenting the victim as one among others. XI Annual Meeting. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. San Antonio (USA).
2010: Analyzing and managing the motivational conflict provoked by presenting the individual in need as one among others. III Annual Meeting. Society for the Study of Motivation. Boston (USA)
2009: When the individual in need is one among others: testing the conflict between two prosocial motives. X Annual Meeting. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Tampa (USA).
2007: Disposition to feel two vicarious qualitatively different: Empathy and personal distress. XXXI Inter- American Conference of Psychology. Mexico City (Mexico).