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- Empathy and helping: the role of affect in response to others . . .
We found that individuals with greater tendencies to experience Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking felt more positive (e g , connected, compassionate), whereas those with higher Personal Distress felt more negative (e g , nervous, anxious) in response to another’s suffering
- Upregulating positive affect through compassion . . .
As compassion provides the advantage to increase the emotional connection between individuals, and promote positive affect, it is a particularly suitable form of emotion regulation for people who feel detached or isolated from others and struggle to generate positive affect
- Not As Good as You Think? Trait Positive Emotion Is . . .
Trait Positive Emotion Is Associated with Increased Self-Reported Empathy but Decreased Empathic Performance How is positive emotion associated with our ability to empathize with others? Extant research provides support for two competing predictions about this question
- Empathy How to Feel and Respond to the Emotions of Others
Developing your listening skills, paying attention to body language, and increasing emotional intelligence can heighten your ability to empathize with others Embracing your own vulnerability and exploring new perspectives can also help
- Transforming Empathy Into Compassion: Why It Matters
Empathy, mimicry, and emotional contagion are distinct experiences Empathy is the capacity to put yourself in another person’s shoes and is foundational to our existence as social creatures To
- The Psychology of Emotional and Cognitive Empathy
Empathy is a broad concept that refers to the cognitive and emotional reactions of an individual to the observed experiences of another Having empathy increases the likelihood of helping others and showing compassion
- When Empathy Hurts, Compassion Can Heal - Greater Good
A recent study, published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, suggests that we can better cope with others’ negative emotions by strengthening our own compassion skills, which the researchers define as “feeling concern for another’s suffering and desiring to enhance that individual’s welfare ”
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