Training people to feel another's pain increased their distre... | Olga Klimecki and colleagues

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Training people to feel another's pain increased their distress. Training the same people in compassion reversed it, raising positive feeling and lighting up brain regions tied to warmth and affiliation.

Olga Klimecki and colleagues, 2014 · brain imaging study of empathy training and compassion training

Klimecki, Leiberg, Ricard and Singer, Differential pattern of functional brain plasticity after compassion and empathy training, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(6), 873-879, 2014

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Olga Klimecki and colleagues: Training people to feel another's pain increased their distress. Training the same people in compassion reversed it, raising positive feeling and lighting up brain regions tied to warmth and affiliation.