Does compassion feel pleasant or unpleasant? Westerners tend to categorize compassion as a pleasant or positive emotion, but laboratory compassion inductions, which present another's suffering, may elicit unpleasant feelings. Across two studies, we examined whether prototypical conceptualizations of compassion (as pleasant) differ from experiences of compassion (as unpleasant). After laboratory...

today, self-objectification is define by evaluating the others based on physical appearance, beauty and sexual attractiveness, it’s a major source of women suffering especially female students and reduce resilience and self-compassion and mental health of them is endangered. the aim of this study is investigating the relationship between self-objectification with resilience and self-compassion ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article is an investigation of the possibility that compassion is not a discrete feature but an emergent and contingent process that is at its base enactive. Compassion must be primed through the cultivation of various factors. This article endeavors to identify interdependent components of compassion. This is particularly relevant for those in the end-of-life care profes...

New Waves in Ethics. Ed. Thom Brooks. Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming) Introduction Much has been written in recent years about the bearing of experimental results in social psychology on the existence of character traits. Gilbert Harman and John Doris are what we might call global trait eliminativists – on the basis of the psychological data, they reject the existence of all character traits w...

STUDY OBJECTIVES We have recently shown higher parietal-occipital EEG gamma activity during sleep in long-term meditators compared to meditation-naive individuals. This gamma increase was specific for NREM sleep, was present throughout the entire night and correlated with meditation expertise, thus suggesting underlying long-lasting neuroplastic changes induced through prolonged training. The a...