Aug 26, 2025 · Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with …

Aug 21, 2025 · Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with …

Jul 24, 2013 · Compassion research is at a tipping point: Overwhelming evidence suggests compassion is good for our health and good for the world.

Apr 24, 2018 · You likely never learned in school that you can intentionally strengthen inner skills such as compassion. The good news is that there are specific habits that you can practice in …

Oct 21, 2024 · According to new research, self-compassion may help people use more effective coping strategies and in turn feel better.

Research on self-compassion Explosion of research into self-compassion over the past decade Most research conducted with the Self-Compassion Scale (Neff, 2003a)

What is compassion? And how did it evolve? In this review, we integrate 3 evolutionary arguments that converge on the hypothesis that compassion evolved as a distinct affective experience …

Jan 16, 2013 · Compassion is a powerful moral emotion—it moves us to care for the suffering of others, and enables us to live cooperatively with one another. Yet we live in a society of …

Sep 7, 2012 · 1. Compassion is push-pull It turns out that feeling safe is a precondition to activating biological systems that promote compassion. In the face of another person’s …

Sep 4, 2013 · Take our quiz! Taking that step—breaking out of the anger loop—requires intention. And that intention is a key to cultivating compassion. Compassion is rooted deeper in brain …