(Originally published on Dialogic Mediation Services)

In the video below, Emma Seppala, Associate Director at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University reviews some of the latest scientific research on compassion at the Empathy in Society Conference last October in London.

Among the major points she touches on are:

• measuring the real life impact of compassion interventions on subsequent behaviour;
• compassion as an evolutionary adaptive development;
• the incompleteness of the economic model of agents informed by rational self-interest; and
• applications of compassion development and interventions in the work place.

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