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Compassion is a deliberate habit of mind, a trainable skill that becomes automatic and less effortful with practice. One promising strategy is compassion training that involves making positive well-wishes for others within and beyond individuals’ immediate social ties. Growing evidence suggests that compassion training can promote physical health, strengthen social bonds, and restore humanized perceptions toward diverse groups.
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Empathy and helping
Decades of research hold that empathy is a multifaceted construct. A related challenge in empathy research is to describe how each subcomponent of empathy uniquely contributes to social outcomes. Here, we examined distinct mechanisms through which different components of empathy—Empathic Concern, Perspective Taking, and Personal Distress—may relate to prosociality.
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