Mindfulness and Compassion: An Examination of Mechanism and Scalability
PLoS One February 17, 2015 Daniel Lim, Paul Condon, David Desteno 297 citations
Emerging evidence suggests that meditation engenders prosocial behaviors meant to benefit others. However, the robustness, underlying mechanisms, and potential scalability of such effects remain open to question. The current experiment employed an ecologically valid situation that exposed participants to a person in visible pain. Following three-week, mobile-app based training courses in...