The Neuroscience of Compassion | Tania Singer Can training our brains help make the world a better place? Tania Singer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences thinks it can. She’s a social neuroscientist and psychologist who says the brain’s plasticity means it can be trained to make us less selfish and more compassionate. In this video for the World Economic Forum, Singer shows how our decision making is driven by a set of psychological motivations - from power to fear - that can be altered to help us make better decisions for society and for our health. Her research has also influenced the development of a new model of “caring economics” that hopes to work towards sustainability and global cooperation.
The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measures, and Interventions - Sue Carter, Ph.D. The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measures, and Interventions, which took place July 19th to 22nd in Telluride Colorado, was the first large-scale international conference of its kind dedicated to scientific inquiry into compassion. The conference convened a unique group of leading world experts in the fields of altruism, compassion, and service to present their latest research.
The Neurobiology of Social Relationships: Tend & Befriend Dr. Shelley Taylor is a distinguished professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA. Dr. Taylor's research centers on social relationships and she is a pioneer in this area of research and in the field of Health Psychology in general. In 2009, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2010, she was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association.
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