Short-term compassion training increases prosocial behavior in a newly developed prosocial game

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Leiberg, Susanne ^a   Klimecki, Olga ^a,b   Singer, Tania ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPASSION; COMPASSION TRAINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECIPROCITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION STUDY; ZURICH PROSOCIAL GAME; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EMPATHY; MEMORY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MEMORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952428211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017798     Document Type: Article

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