Objective Scientific research into compassion has burgeoned over the past 20 years and
interventions aiming to cultivate compassion towards self and others have been developed …

Mindfulness‐based meditation practices have received substantial scientific attention in
recent years. Mindfulness has been shown to bring many psychological benefits to the …

Abstract Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has disrupted virtually every aspect of daily
living, engendering forced isolation and social distance, economic hardship, fears of …

Various forms of self-loss have been described as aspects of mental illness (eg,
depersonalization disorder), but might self-loss also be related to mental health? In this …

Research in the scientific literature increasingly demonstrates that empathy consists of
multiple dimensions, and that defining empathy as a single encompassing term may be …

Research over the past two decades broadly supports the claim that mindfulness meditation—
practiced widely for the reduction of stress and promotion of health—exerts beneficial effects …

Highlights•Socio-affective and socio-cognitive processes are separable; behaviorally and
neurally.•The related neural networks co-activate and interact in complex social …

Purpose Over the last 10–15 years, there has been a substantive increase in compassion‐
based interventions aiming to improve psychological functioning and well‐being. Methods …

As humans we are a highly social species: in order to coordinate our joint actions and
assure successful communication, we use language skills to explicitly convey information to …

Meditation is a family of mental practices that encompasses a wide array of techniques
employing distinctive mental strategies. We systematically reviewed 78 functional …