Buddhist traditions first explored the concept of mindfulness in broad philosophic terms
unfamiliar to most modern readers. Nevertheless, mindfulness has spread rapidly in …

Mindfulness interventions aim to foster greater attention to and awareness of present
moment experience. There has been a dramatic increase in randomized controlled trials …

Increased attention has focused on methods to increase empathy, compassion, and
prosocial behavior. Meditation practices have traditionally been used to cultivate prosocial …

Many individuals believe that meditation has the capacity to not only alleviate mental-illness
but to improve prosociality. This article systematically reviewed and meta-analysed the …

Like the population at large, health care providers hold implicit racial and ethnic biases that
may contribute to health care disparities. Little progress has been made in identifying and …

The science of meditation has grown tremendously in the last two decades. Most studies
have focused on evaluating the clinical effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions …

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

Over the last decade, empirical research on compassion has burgeoned in the biomedical,
clinical, translational, and foundational sciences. Increasingly sophisticated understandings …

Scholarly discourse has raised concerns about the gravitas of secular mindfulness trainings
in promoting prosocial outgrowths, as these trainings lack ethics-based concepts found in …

How do we, as scientists, define compassion? Is it an emotional state, a motivation, a
dispositional trait, or a cultivated attitude? In this introductory chapter, we set forth a working …