Conceptualizing and experiencing compassion.
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SUBMITTER: Condon P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4119961 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Conceptualizing and experiencing compassion.
Condon Paul P Feldman Barrett Lisa L
Emotion (Washington, D.C.) 20130805 5
Does compassion feel pleasant or unpleasant? Westerners tend to categorize compassion as a pleasant or positive emotion, but laboratory compassion inductions, which present another's suffering, may elicit unpleasant feelings. Across two studies, we examined whether prototypical conceptualizations of compassion (as pleasant) differ from experiences of compassion (as unpleasant). After laboratory-based neutral or compassion inductions, participants made abstract judgments about compassion relative ...[more]
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