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What Is Compassion?
The feeling that arises when you
encounter another persons
suffering and are motivated to
help.
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..an emotion or a trait?
..negative, or positive?
..weak or strong?
..an affective or a higher cognitive process?
..self-interested or purely altruistic?
..a trait or learned?
Is Compassion
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Affiliative
care/
nurturance
motivation;
wish for
suffering to
end
Emotion
Regulation
Distress
Apathy/Coll
apse Open
presence
Common
Humanity/in-
group vs.
outgroup
Appraisals
Attributions
Moral status
Justice/need/
deservedness
Agency / Self-
Efficacy can
I help?
Empathetic Joy
Effects of compassionate behavior
Emotion
identification
/empathicaccuracy
Behavior
A Componential Model of Compassion
Cost/benefit
analysis
should I help?
Compassion evocation
other
Initial physio
response, a.k.a.
resonance,
contagion
you
other is
suffering
My help will relieve
others suffering
I feel relief!
Empathy
I feel relief too!
Warm glow