Abstract
Emotional expertise refers to the set of skills and competencies that enable individuals to perceive, understand, and differentiate their own and others’ emotional experiences effectively. It encompasses multiple operationalizations of what it means to be “good at emotion.” In this talk, David Weissmann will discuss research with individuals across the lifespan examining how early life experiences relate to different measures of emotion expertise (alexithymia, levels of emotional awareness, emotion granularity) and how individual differences in emotion expertise contribute to risk and resilience for psychopathology.
Bio – Dr. David Weissmann
David Weissman is a developmental psychologist whose research focuses on how childhood trauma impacts the way young people experience emotions in their bodies, brains, and minds, and how this contributes to risk and resilience for psychopathology. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where he runs the Resilience, Affect, and Neurodevelopment Lab.
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