Personality and prosocial behavior: A theoretical framework and meta-analysis.

I Thielmann, G Spadaro, D Balliet - Psychological bulletin, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Decades of research document individual differences in prosocial behavior using controlled
experiments that model social interactions in situations of interdependence. However …

It matters what you practice: Differential training effects on subjective experience, behavior, brain and body in the ReSource Project

T Singer, V Engert - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•An undifferentiated view of what mindfulness can achieve has developed.•Variant
types of meditation-based mental practices should be studied differentially.•The ReSource …

Decoding the charitable brain: empathy, perspective taking, and attention shifts differentially predict altruistic giving

A Tusche, A Böckler, P Kanske… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
Altruistic behavior varies considerably across people and decision contexts. The relevant
computational and motivational mechanisms that underlie its heterogeneity, however, are …

Creating a Compassionate World: Addressing the Conflicts Between Sharing and Caring Versus Controlling and Holding Evolved Strategies

P Gilbert - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
For thousands of years, various spiritual traditions and social activists have appealed to
humans to adopt compassionate ways of living to address the suffering of life. Yet, along …

Compassion as a skill: A comparison of contemplative and evolution-based approaches

P Gilbert, W Van Gordon - Mindfulness, 2023 - Springer
The editors to this volume posed a series of fascinating questions relating to how seeing
compassion as a skill can help us understand its nature, cultivation and effects within …

Differences in the semantics of prosocial words: an exploration of compassion and kindness

P Gilbert, J Basran, M MacArthur, JN Kirby - Mindfulness, 2019 - Springer
Objectives The study of prosocial behaviour has accelerated greatly in the last 20 years.
Researchers are exploring different domains of prosocial behaviour such as compassion …

[HTML][HTML] Boosting empathy and compassion through mindfulness-based and socioemotional dyadic practice: randomized controlled trial with app-delivered trainings

S Silveira, M Godara, T Singer - Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2023 - jmir.org
Background Contemplative trainings have been found to effectively improve social skills
such as empathy and compassion. However, there is a lack of research on the efficacy of …

Distinct mental trainings differentially affect altruistically motivated, norm motivated, and self-reported prosocial behaviour

A Böckler, A Tusche, P Schmidt, T Singer - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Global challenges such as climate change or the refugee crises emphasize the necessity of
altruism and cooperation. In a large-scale 9-month intervention study, we investigated the …

Compassion as a social mentality: An evolutionary approach

P Gilbert - Compassion, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Siegel highlights the enormous importance of affiliative and compassionate caring,
especially in early life, for its development. Socially, while threat and feeling threatened can …

Neural signatures of social inferences predict the number of real-life social contacts and autism severity

A Tusche, RP Spunt, LK Paul, JM Tyszka… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
We regularly infer other people's thoughts and feelings from observing their actions, but how
this ability contributes to successful social behavior and interactions remains unknown. We …