Compassion Meditators Show Less Anger, Less Punishment and More Compensation of Victims in Response to Fairness Violations

Compassion Meditators Show Less Anger, Less Punishment and More Compensation of Victims in Response to Fairness Violations

Fairness violations elicit powerful behavioral and affective responses. Indeed, people are willing to incur costs to sanction unfair behavior. Here we study the possible impact of long-term mental training in socio-affective capacities such as compassion on altruistic punishment and compensatory beh...

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Main Authors: Cade eMcCall, Nikolaus eSteinbeis, Matthieu eRicard, Tania eSinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
Meditation
social preferences
Altruism
Economic games
Prosocial Behavior
compassion
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00424/full

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