Empathy and compassion

Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain

Tania Singer, Ben Seymour, John P. O’Doherty et al. · Science · 2004 · 3.9K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Psychology +17

Open hearts build lives: Positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources.

Barbara L. Fredrickson, Michael Cohn, Kimberly A. Coffey et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2008 · 2.4K citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +11

Regulation of the Neural Circuitry of Emotion by Compassion Meditation: Effects of Meditative Expertise

Antoine Lutz, Julie A. Brefczynski‐Lewis, Tom Johnstone et al. · PLoS ONE · 2008 · 940 citations · Full text

Nursing, Neuroscience, Psychology +15

Neural Responses to Ingroup and Outgroup Members' Suffering Predict Individual Differences in Costly Helping

Grit Hein, Giorgia Silani, Kerstin Preuschoff et al. · Neuron · 2010 · 834 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +17

Differential pattern of functional brain plasticity after compassion and empathy training

Olga Klimecki, Susanne Leiberg, Matthieu Ricard et al. · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · 2013 · 676 citations · Full text

Education, Neuroscience, Psychology +17