3MT 2024 | Leah Smolarek - Can being nicer to ourselves make us nicer to others?
"My name is Leah and my PhD research explores whether self-compassion can influence how we treat people, and if being nicer to ourselves can help us be nicer to others. I’m particularly interested in how self-compassion can help us cope with feelings of discomfort and defensiveness, so we can make kinder choices. I love social psychology because I think that developing strong theory is the foundation for everything else that we do in the field, and it informs all the wonderful ways we can build better communities."
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