Emma M. Seppälä, PhD, is Science Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Yale College Emotional Intelligence Project at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She is the author of The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success (2016).

Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PhD, is the Science Director at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center (GGSC). Among other initiatives, she runs the GGSC Research Fellowship program and co-instructs GG101x: The Science of Happiness.

Stephanie L. Brown, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stony Brook University. She was the lead editor on the edited volume Moving Beyond Self-Interest: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and the Social Sciences (OUP 2011).

Monica C. Worline, PhD, is a research scientist at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and Executive Director of CompassionLab. She is also the founder and CEO of EnlivenWork.

Daryl Cameron, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University.

James R. Doty, MD, is the founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. He is a professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and the New York Times bestselling author of Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart (2016).

• Preface


• James R. Doty


• Part One: Introduction


• Chapter 1: The Landscape of Compassion: Definitions and Scientific Approaches


• Jennifer L. Goetz and Emiliana Simon-Thomas


• Chapter 2: Compassion in Context: Tracing the Buddhist Roots of Secular, Compassion-Based Contemplative Programs


• Brooke D. Lavelle


• Chapter 3: The Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis: What and So What?


• C. Daniel Batson


• Chapter 4: Is Global Compassion Achievable?


• Paul Ekman and Eve Ekman


• Part Two: Developmental Approaches


• Chapter 5: Compassion in Children


• Tracy L. Spinrad and Nancy Eisenberg


• Chapter 6: Parental Brain: The Crucible of Compassion


• James E. Swain and S. Shaun Ho


• Chapter 7: Adult Attachment and Compassion: Normative and Individual Difference Components


• Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver


• Chapter 8: Compassion-Focused Parenting


• James N. Kirby


• Part Three: Psychophysiological and Biological Approaches


• Chapter 9: The Compassionate Brain


• Olga M. Klimecki and Tania Singer


• Chapter 10: Two Factors that Fuel Compassion: The Oxytocin System and the Social Experience of Moral Elevation


• Sarina Rodrigues Saturn


• Chapter 11: The Impact of Compassion Meditation Training on the Brain and Prosocial Behavior


• Helen Y. Weng, Brianna Schuyler, and Richard J. Davidson


• Chapter 12: Cultural neuroscience of compassion and empathy


• Joan Y. Chiao


• Chapter 13: Compassionate Neurobiology and Health


• Stephanie L. Brown and R. Michael Brown


• Chapter 14: The Roots of Compassion: An Evolutionary and Neurobiological Perspective


• C. Sue Carter, Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal, and Eric C. Porges


• Chapter 15: Vagal pathways: Portals to Compassion


• Stephen W. Porges


• Part Four: Compassion Interventions


• Chapter 16: Empathy Building Interventions: A Review of Existing Work and Suggestions for Future Directions


• Erika Weisz and Jamil Zaki


• Chapter 17: Studies of Training Compassion: What Have We Learned, What Remains Unknown?


• Alea C. Skwara, Brandon G. King, and Clifford D. Saron


• Chapter 18: The Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) Program


• Philippe R. Goldin and Hooria Jazaieri


• Chapter 19: From Specific to General: The Biological Effects of Cognitively-Based Compassion Training


• Jennifer Mascaro, Lobsang Tenzin Negi, and Charles L. Raison


• Part Five: Social Psychological and Sociological Approaches


• Chapter 20: Compassion Collapse: Why We Are Numb to Numbers


• C. Daryl Cameron


• Chapter 21: The Cultural Shaping of Compassion


• Birgit Koopman-Holm and Jeanne L. Tsai


• Chapter 22: Enhancing compassion: Social psychological perspectives


• Paul Condon and David DeSteno


• Chapter 23: Empathy, compassion, and social relationships


• Mark H. Davis


• Chapter 24: The Class-Compassion Gap: How Socioeconomic Factors Influence Compassion


• Paul K. Piff and Jake P. Moskowitz


• Chapter 25: Changes Over Time in Compassion-Related Variables in the United States


• Sasha Zarins and Sara Konrath


• Chapter 26: To Help or Not to Help: Goal Commitment and the Goodness of Compassion


• Michael J. Poulin


• Part Six: Clinical Approaches


• Chapter 27: Self-Compassion and Psychological Well-being


• Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer


• Chapter 28: Compassion Fatigue Resilience


• Charles R. Figley and Kathleen Regan Figley


• Chapter 29: Compassion Fears, Blocks and Resistances: An Evolutionary Investigation


• Paul Gilbert and Jennifer Mascaro


• Part Seven: Applied Compassion


• Chapter 30: Organizational Compassion: Manifestations Through Organizations


• Kim Cameron


• Chapter 31: How Leaders Shape Compassion Processes in Organizations


• Monica C. Worline and Jane E. Dutton


• Chapter 32: Compassion in Healthcare


• Sue Shea and Christos Lionis


• Chapter 33: A Call for Compassion and Care in Education: Toward a More Comprehensive ProSocial Framework for the Field


• Brooke D. Lavelle, Lisa Flook, and Dara G. Ghahremani


• Chapter 34: Heroism: Social Transformation Through Compassion in Action


• Philip G. Zimbardo, Emma Seppälä, and Zeno Franco


• Chapter 35: Social Dominance and Leadership: The mediational effect of Compassion


• Daniel Martin and Yotam Heineberg


• Index