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Reduced Social Connectedness and Compassion Toward Close Others in Patients With Chronic Depression Compared to a Non-clinical Sample

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Relations between stress, coping strategies, and prosocial behavior in U.S. Mexican college students

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Is empathy one of the Big Three? Identifying its role in a dual-process model of ideology and blatant and subtle prejudice

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Increased empathic distress in adults is associated with higher levels of childhood maltreatment

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A consensual qualitative research analysis of the experience of inmate hospice caregivers: Posttraumatic growth while incarcerated

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Why does one want to feel socially engaging emotions? The role of self-transcendence values on desired emotions among adolescents

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Giftedness in Childhood

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Toward Generalized Concern: The Development of Compassion and Links to Kind Orientations

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Community identity as a mediator of the relationship between socioeconomic status and altruistic behaviour in Chinese residents

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Money cannot buy happiness: improving governance in the banking sector through spirituality

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Stress at Work: Can the Spiritual Dimension Reduce It? An Approach From the Banking Sector

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You may not reap what you sow: How and when ethical leadership promotes subordinates’ online helping behavior

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Uncovering paradoxes of compassion at work: a dyadic study of compassionate leader behavior

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Effects of a Digital Game-Based Course in Building Adolescents’ Knowledge and Social-Emotional Competencies

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Trajectories of risk and resilience: The role of empathy and perceived social support in the context of early adversity

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Compassion for others and well-being: a meta-analysis

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Childhood adversity and later life prosocial behavior: A qualitative comparative study of Irish older adult survivors

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Epidemiology of compassion: A literature review

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Sexual Assault Labels, Compassion for Others, Self-Compassion, and Victim Blaming

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From empathetic hearts to digital hands: A study of compassion and donation behavior in social media advertising

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Challenging the myth of the attrition of empathy in paediatrics residents

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Perceived Physical Vulnerability Promotes Prosocial Behavior

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College Student Resilience During COVID-19: Examining the Roles of Mindfulness, Compassion, and Prosocial Behavior

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Investigating the role of adversity and benevolence beliefs in predicting prosociality

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