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Dr Belén López-Pérez studies how we shape each other's emotions. Her own career story, full of accidental discoveries, near-misses, and hard-won resilience, turns out to be a brilliant illustration of her own research. Most people who become academic psychologists will tell you they always wanted to understand the human mind. Belén López-Pérez is not most people. "I ended up doing psychology accidentally," she says. The now-lecturer at the University of Manchester had spent