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Emma Seppala explains how compassionate workplaces are good for employee health and the corporate bottom line.
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A new study finds that training in compassion makes us more altruistic—and explores the neuroscience behind why.
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Finds that feeling gratitude produces kind and helpful behavior, even when that behavior is costly to the individual actor.
"Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review"
Compassion evolved as a distinct affective experience whose function is to enable cooperation and protection of those who...
"From Jerusalem to Jericho"
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