The importance of compassion is widely recognized and it is receiving increasing research
attention. Yet, there is lack of consensus on definition and a paucity of psychometrically …

What is compassion? And how did it evolve? In this review, we integrate 3 evolutionary
arguments that converge on the hypothesis that compassion evolved as a distinct affective …

In explaining the sources of cooperation and prosocial behavior, psychologists, behavioral
economists, and biologists often focus on factors internal to the individual, such as altruistic …

The current study examines changes over time in a commonly used measure of
dispositional empathy. A cross-temporal meta-analysis was conducted on 72 samples of …

The search for the prosocial personality has been long and controversial. The current
research explores the general patterns underlying prosocial decisions, linking personality …

Empathy‐related responding, including empathy, sympathy, and personal distress, has
been implicated in conceptual models and theories about prosocial behavior and altruism …

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The study of moral identity may be one of the more promising new trends in moral
psychology. Moral identity is the degree to which being a moral person is important to a …

Current research on prosocial behavior covers a broad and diverse range of phenomena.
We argue that this large research literature can be best organized and understood from a …

Social and Personality Development looks at the processes by which we come to be who we
are. It covers a range of topics central to personality and developmental psychology. The …