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Compassion training alters altruism and neural responses to suffering.

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Weng, Helen Y., Fox, Andrew S., Shackman, Alexander J., Stodola, Diane E., Caldwell, Jessica Z. K., Olson, Matthew C., Rogers, Gregory M., Davidson, Richard J.·2013·Psychological Science

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Compassion is a key motivator of altruistic behavior, but little is known about individuals' capacity to cultivate compassion through training. We examined whether compassion may be systematically trained by testing whether (a) short-term compassion training increases altruistic behavior and (b) individual differences in altruism are associated with training-induced changes in neural responses to suffering. In healthy adults, we found that compassion training increased altruistic redistribution of funds to a victim encountered outside of the training context. Furthermore, increased altruistic behavior after compassion training was associated with altered activation in brain regions implicated in social cognition and emotion regulation, including the inferior parietal cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and in DLPFC connectivity with the nucleus accumbens. These results suggest that compassion can be cultivated with training and that greater altruistic behavior may emerge from increased engagement of neural systems implicated in understanding the suffering of other people, executive and emotional control, and reward processing.

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Authors: Weng, H. Y., Fox, A. S., Shackman, A. J., Stodola, D. E., Caldwell, J. Z. K., Olson, M. C., Rogers, G. M., & Davidson, R. J.
Affiliations: University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
ORCID: Fox, Andrew S.
Shackman, Alexander J.
Caldwell, Jessica Z. K.
Davidson, Richard J.
Venue: Psychological Science
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2013-05-21
Volume: 24
Issue: 7
Pages: 1171-1180
ISSN: 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
1467-9280
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612469537
PMC: PMC3713090
OpenAlex: W2102589785
Cited by: 602
References: 65
Citations by year: 2026: 24 · 2025: 39 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 45 · 2022: 47 · 2021: 62 · 2020: 55 · 2019: 52 · 2018: 51 · 2017: 51 · 2016: 43 · 2015: 48 · 2014: 38 · 2013: 4
FWCI: 48.88
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: National Institute of Mental Health (T32MH018931)
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (P01AT004952)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P30HD003352)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords: compassion training, altruism, compassion, inferior parietal cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, social cognition, emotion regulation, reward processing
MeSH terms: Adult, Altruism, Brain, Brain Mapping, Emotions, Empathy, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Motivation, Neural Pathways, Nucleus Accumbens, Pain, Parietal Lobe, Social Behavior, Stress, Psychological, Prefrontal Cortex, Meditation, Young Adult, Functional Neuroimaging

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