Tag Archives: Compassion

Kanov, J. M., Maitlis, S., Worline, M. C., Dutton, J. E., Frost, P. J., &Lilius, J. M. (2004). Compassion in organizational life. American Behavioral Scientist, 47(6), 808-827.

In this article, the authors explore compassion in work organizations. They discuss the prevalence and costs of pain in organizational life, and identify compassion as an important process that can occur in response to suffering. At the individual level, compassion takes place through three subprocesses: noticing another’s pain, experiencing an emotional reaction to the pain, …

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Lilius, J. M., Worline, M. C., Maitlis, S., Kanov, J., Dutton, J. E., &Frost, P. (2008). The contours and consequences of compassion at work. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29(2), 193-218.

This paper describes two studies that explore core questions about compassion at work. Findings from a pilot survey indicate that compassion occurs with relative frequency among a wide variety of individuals, suggesting a relationship between experienced compassion, positive emotion, and affective commitment. A complementary narrative study reveals a wide range of compassion triggers and illuminates …

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Mascaro, J. S., Rilling, J. K., Tenzin Negi, L., &Raison, C. L. (2012). Compassion meditation enhances empathic accuracy and related neural activity.

  The ability to accurately infer others’ mental states from facial expressions is important for optimal social functioning and is fundamentally impaired in social cognitive disorders such as autism. While pharmacologic interventions have shown promise for enhancing empathic accuracy, little is known about the effects of behavioral interventions on empathic accuracy and related brain activity. …

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Goetz, J. L., Keltner, D., &Simon-Thomas, E. (2010). Compassion: an evolutionary analysis and empirical review. Psychological bulletin, 136(3), 351.

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 experience whose primary function is to facilitate cooperation and protection of the weak and those who suffer. Our empirical review reveals compassion to have distinct appraisal processes …

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