Things that boost happiness are always worth revisiting around the holidays. Why now? Because these happiness habits can help us through the turbulence that swirls around the holidays.See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compassion
Daily Archives: 21/12/2011
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Richard Davidson was in a lab observing a Buddhist Monk Sink deep into serene meditation when he noticed something that sent his own pulse racing. Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, hurriedly double-chec…
We need to Occupy our own minds before we can become empowered. Specifically, people all have built-in bugs in our brains.See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compassion
One of the most influential people in the study of empathy is the Professor of Primate Behavior, Frans de Waal. Author: The Age of Empathy. Empathy as a source of morality. ‘Human morality is older than our current religions, and may go back to t…
A new study shows that empathy may drive rats to help each other. The finding gives insight into the biological roots of our urge to assist others in need… Empathy motivates us to take action. We feel distressed when another is suffering, and …
The human voice is one of the principal conveyers of social and affective communication. Recent neuroimaging studies have suggested that observing pain in others activates neural representations similar to those from the first-hand experience of pain;…