The Unambiguous Science of How to Use the Language of Emotion to Bolster Emotion Regulation with Professor Kristen Lindquist

Raising Good Humans

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How do children learn to understand and regulate the emotions? In this episode, I sit down with professor and psychologist Kristen Lindquist to explore how kids develop the ability to recognize, label, and regulate their emotions. We talk about the power of language in shaping emotional growth, the fine line between validating feelings and overwhelming kids with labels, and how temperament plays a role in emotional development.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:09.4	Welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:11.7	I'm Dr. Elisa Pressman, and today's episode is all about the language of emotions and emotion regulation.
0:19.7	My guest, Professor Kristen Lindquist, is a professor
0:24.1	of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and she's the
0:29.5	president of the Society for Affective Science. Her research seeks to understand the psychological
0:35.5	and neural basis of emotions, moods, and feelings.
0:39.3	And what we're talking about today is since we know how critical emotion regulation is for
0:46.5	pretty much every outcome from mental health outcomes to cognitive outcomes, relational outcomes, et cetera.
0:57.0	Since we know how important it is, how can we start at young ages to integrate the fluency
1:03.9	of emotional intelligence into our children's lives?
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2:12.2	just come in with your questions. It's pretty small and really personalized and and I hope to see you there.
2:19.5	As always, you can reach me through my substack, submit questions.
2:24.4	I'll be answering questions not only on my substack and on my Instagram at Raising Good
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