“…Similarly, a great deal of research indicates that emotional regulation—a cardinal component of self‐regulation—is positively associated with empathic behavior and socially desirable courses of action (Decety & Jackson, 2006; Hein, Röder, & Fingerle, 2016; Laghi, Lonigro, Pallini, & Baiocco, 2018). Thompson, Uusberg, Gross, and Chakrabarti (2019) suggest that the emotional state elicited in the observer as a function of empathic processes is subject to one's regulatory processes, which explains why a temperate person is more likely to be empathic. This is also evidenced in the positive associations between the self‐reported capacity to take the perspective of others and the dispositional measures of regulation (Contardi, Imperatori, Penzo, Del Gatto, & Farina, 2016; Okun, Shepard, & Eisenberg, 2000).…”