Compassion - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/compassion/ The Virtual Psychology Classroom Thu, 31 Mar 2022 08:01:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://allpsych.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-AllPsych-Favicon-32x32.png Compassion - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/compassion/ 32 32 Is Compassion the Key to Enjoying Sad Music? https://allpsych.com/is-compassion-the-key-to-enjoying-sad-music/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-compassion-the-key-to-enjoying-sad-music Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:10:01 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2625 A question that often comes up in music psychology is why so many people enjoy music that recalls negative emotions like sadness. It seems paradoxical that people would seek out and apparently experience positive feelings from music that portrays negative emotions. A new paper in the journal Frontiers in Psychology puts forward one possible explanation…

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]]> Self-Compassion, Self-Coldness and Seeking Help https://allpsych.com/self-compassion-self-coldness-and-seeking-help/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=self-compassion-self-coldness-and-seeking-help Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:00:59 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2295 There’s a good chance you’ve heard about self-compassion, which has been increasingly seen as important by psychologists in recent years. Even if you haven’t, you probably have some intuitive understanding of what it is and why it might be important for mental health. A related idea that’s less talked about is self-coldness. Where self-compassion is…

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]]> More Compassionate People Can Prefer Harsher Punishments https://allpsych.com/more-compassionate-people-can-prefer-harsher-punishments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-compassionate-people-can-prefer-harsher-punishments Sat, 06 Apr 2019 03:08:50 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2008 A compassionate disposition and a desire to see someone get their “just deserts” might not seem to go together. But a new study suggests that people who are more compassionate also prefer to see harsher punishments doled out when someone perpetrates an injustice against others. As part of the study, published in Journal of Personality…

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]]> Self-Compassion Consistently Linked With Mental Health in Teenagers https://allpsych.com/self-compassion-consistently-linked-with-mental-health-in-teenagers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=self-compassion-consistently-linked-with-mental-health-in-teenagers Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:00:25 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=1684 Being able to treat themselves with kindness might make a real difference for teens when it comes to mental health. That idea makes intuitive sense, and now a meta-analysis by researchers at University of Edinburgh suggests it has a substantial amount of scientific evidence to back it up. The theory that self-compassion and mental health…

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