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SUBMITTER: Falconer CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6343863 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Falconer Caroline J CJ Lobmaier Janek S JS Christoforou Marina M Kamboj Sunjeev K SK King John A JA Gilbert Paul P Brewin Chris R CR
PloS one 20190123 1
Compassion is a complex cognitive, emotional and behavioural process that has important real-world consequences for the self and others. Considering this, it is important to understand how compassion is communicated. The current research investigated the expression and perception of compassion via the face. We generated exemplar images of two compassionate facial expressions induced from two mental imagery tasks with different compassionate motivations (Study 1). Our kind- and empathic compassio ...[more]