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Kareena del Rosario is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan. She studies the unseen influences of emotions and morality in interpersonal interactions, asking questions such as: How do negative emotions “leak out” during conversation? Can we catch others’ emotions (e.g., stress, moral outrage) without realizing it? Her work largely draws on psychophysiology, using autonomic measures to better understand how we feel and respond during social interactions. At U-M, she is expanding her work to close relationships, exploring how interpersonal processes like empathy and responsiveness shape well-being and relationship quality. Dr. del Rosario received her PhD in Social Psychology from NYU in 2025.