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DARIO ALEXANDER PAEZ ROVIRA born in Chile, 13/10/1952. He earned his doctorate degree in 1983 at the University of Louvain, Belgium, with a dissertation on the Social Psychology of Social Movements. Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Basque Country 1/10/1983-31/8/2023. Invited Professor Faculty of Education and Social Sciences Universidad Andres Bello, Stgo., Chile and Honorary Professor Faculty of Psychology Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, Peru 2019-2020- present.Honorary professor Faculty of Psychology University of Buenos Aires, 2023-present.His research interests include collective emotions and memory, social representations, coping and affect regulation. Co-editor of Collective Memory of Political Events (1997), Social Identity: International Approaches (1998) a monograph of Journal of Social Issues on Emotional Climate and Culture of Peace (2007) and Overcoming Violence and Building a Culture of Peace (2012). His work addresses the issue of Truth Commissions as rituals of transitional justice and effects on personal and social well being in Argentina. Chile, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Equator, Brazil and Colombia. He currently works on collective gatherings, collective effervescence and social movements (Rime & Paez 2023 Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim's Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence Perspectives in Psychological Science) The author of 23 books and 287 papers H Index 36 Publons/Clarivate 37 Scopus and 82 Google Scholar. He is currently editor of PSocial, journal of Dpt of Social Psychology, Sociology Faculty, UBA.