Posted in Compassion on Apr 13th, 2010
Fredrickson, B. L., Cohn, M. A., Coffey, K. A., Pek, J., & Finkel, S. M. (2008). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1045-1062.
B. L. Fredrickson’s (1998, 2001) broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions asserts that people’s daily experiences of positive emotions compound over time to build a variety of consequential personal resources. The [...]
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Posted in Aging, Compassion on Apr 13th, 2010
Hutcherson, C. A., Seppala, E. M., & Gross, J. J. (2008). Emotion, 8, 720-724.
The need for social connection is a fundamental human motive, and it is increasingly clear that feeling socially connected confers mental and physical health benefits. However, in many cultures, societal changes are leading to growing social distrust and [...]
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Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34, 87-98; Pace, T. W. W., Negi, L. T., Adame, D. D., Cole, S. P., Sivilli, T. I., Brown, T. D., Issa, M. J., & Raison, C.L. (2009).
Meditation practices may impact physiological pathways that are modulated by stress and relevant to disease. While much attention has been paid to meditation practices [...]
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In the fall of 2005, the Dalai Lama gave the inaugural Dialogues between Neuroscience and Society lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, DC. There were over 30,000 neuroscientists registered for the meeting, and it seemed as if most of them attended the talk. The Dalai [...]
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Posted in Compassion on Apr 12th, 2010
The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University has announced a conference on the Language of Mental Life scheduled for July 7-9, 2010 during which western scientists will meet with Buddhist scholars to create a lexicon for better understanding the key terms of mental life.
In the [...]
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Posted in Compassion on Apr 12th, 2010
Shambhala Sun | May 2010
In 1961, following the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann
in Jerusalem, Yale social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a
study to find out how much pain test subjects would be willing to inflict on other
people at the behest of an authority figure. He was trying to ascertain whether people
could perform acts [...]
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Science 24 April 2009:
Vol. 324. no. 5926, pp. 458 - 459
Back in 2000, James Doty was living the high life. He drove a Ferrari to work and was in the process of buying a private island in New Zealand, a villa in Tuscany, and a penthouse apartment in San Francisco. A neurosurgeon [...]
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A new Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education has been launched at the School of Medicine, with the aim of doing scientific research on the neural underpinnings of these thoughts and feelings.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, provided $150,000 in seed money for the center—the largest [...]
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AACN Advanced Critical Care
Volume 20, Number 1, pp.108–111
Cynda Hylton Rushton, RN, PhD, FAAN
Do you ever notice how difficult it becomes when you are embroiled in an
ethical conflict to stop long enough to reflect on your own motivations,
much less the motivations of others? Or how easily we begin to create our own
story about the situation, often [...]
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In Dharma in Hell, prison activist and meditation teacher Fleet Maull shares his journey of transformation and service amidst the anger, violence, darkness and despair of a maximum security federal prison. This collection of previously published and unpublished writings from his 14 years behind bars vibrates with kindness, hope and the [...]
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