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Compassion is a feeling of sympathy for another individual in distress. The development of this behavior, considered essential for humans to coexist, is still little known. For this reason, two teams of Japanese researchers took an interest in it.

La compassion est un sentiment de sympathie envers un autre individu en détresse. Le développement de ce comportement jugé essentiel pour que les hommes cohabitent est encore mal connu. C’est pourquoi deux équipes de chercheurs japonais s’y sont intéressées.  

Une étude de Berkeley a découvert que les athées, les agnostiques et les individus les moins religieux sont davantage motivés par la compassion pour être généreux.

Le prix de supprimer volontairement votre compassion : cela nous est tous arrivé : nous voyons un SDF nous demander de l'argent et, malgré notre compassion habituelle, décidons cette fois de ne pas plonger notre main dans la poche.

Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity -- caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other mammals, that show how many of these moral traits all of us share.

It’s normal to not always act on your sense of compassion—for example, by walking past a beggar on the street without giving them any money. Maybe you want to save your money or avoid engaging with a homeless person.

MIT postdoc Emile Bruneau has long been drawn to conflict - not as a participant, but an observer.

Investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say that empathy and compassion, two traits that usually bring people closer together, oftentimes fail unexpectedly between opposing groups in a conflict. Their work proposes a series of reasons why this happens.

Il existe des différences sur le plan émotionnel entre les riches et les pauvres.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama speaks on the centrality of compassion at Stanford University. He shares his thoughts on the necessity of friendship, altruism, family, selflessness, and religion, from the perspectives of such wide-ranging disciplines as education, social psychology and neuroscience