Multiple Studies Find Mindfulness Increases Prosocial Behavior
American Mindfulness Research Association
Format:
Website
Publication Date:
2018/02/15/
Sources ID:
114201
Collection:
Social Connection and Well-being
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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While people generally regard helpfulness and friendliness to be virtues, they often fail to extend their empathy to strangers in need. Berry et al. [Journal of Experimental Psychology] conducted a series of four experiments to see whether mindfulness—as an individual’s disposition and as an induced mental state—increases prosocial behavior towards an excluded stranger by increasing empathic concern.