Relationships

Relationships are built on compassion. By cultivating compassion we can learn to build stronger connections, overcome periods of conflict, and create bridges with those we may at first oppose.

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A review of concepts related to empathy and compassion and the promoting of prosocial behavior

Empathic distress fatigue rather than compassion fatigue? Integrating findings from empathy research in psychology and social neuroscience

Klimecki, O., & Singer, T.; Oakley, B., Knafo, A., Madhavan, G., & Wilson, D. S. (Eds.)

What we know about empathy

Empathy from the perspective of social neuroscience

Klimecki, O., & Singer, T.; Armony, J., & Vuilleumier, P. (Eds.)

Empathizing and mentalizing have distinct processes. Empathy leads to more prosocial decisions while accurate mentalizing of situations increase willingness to help.

Empathy and correct mental state inferences both promote prosociality

Lehmann, K., Böckler, Klimecki, O., Müller-Liebmann, C., & Kanske, P.

One day of training in compassion increases prosocial behavior

Short-term compassion training increases prosocial behavior in a newly developed prosocial game

Leiberg, S., Klimecki, O., & Singer, T.

Parents who received a 2-hour training of Compassion Focused Therapy show less self-criticism, parental hostility, and verbosity, which correlate with significant reductions in child conduct, emotion, hyperactivity and peer problems

A brief compassion focused therapy intervention can help self-critical parents and their children: A randomised controlled trial

Kirby, J. N., Hoang, A., & Ramos, N.

Men high in perspective-taking and empathic concern show an increase in forgiveness behavior, whereas empathic distress may increase aggressive behavior towards the fair and innocent