Compassion is an interpersonal process involving the noticing, feeling, sensemaking, and
acting that alleviates the suffering of another person. This process has recently received …

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Many entrepreneurs are struggling with the question of how to deliver a successful fund-
raising pitch on crowdfunding platforms. In this study, we focus on the linguistic style of …

Climate change is an issue which elicits low engagement, even among concerned
segments of the public. While research suggests that the presentation of factual information …

This paper contrasts conservative and liberal interpretations of the extended mind
hypothesis. The liberal view, defended here, considers cognition to be socially extensive, in …

Charitable giving in 2013 exceeded $300 billion, but why do we respond to some life-saving
causes while ignoring others? In our first two studies, we demonstrated that valuation of lives …

Four studies tested the proposition that mindfulness and its training fostered prosociality
toward ostracized strangers. In discovery Study 1, dispositional mindfulness predicted …

Empathy facilitates everyday social interactions and has often been linked in the literature to
prosocial behavior. Robust evidence has been found for a positive relationship between …

Emotional reactions are an important element in the motivation to help others. Our research
examined the role of affective vs. deliberative information processing in the genesis and use …

Recent research finds that people respond more generously to individual victims described
in detail than to equivalent statistical victims described in general terms. We propose that …