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  1. 1. The Four Immeasurables Program: Training empathy and promoting altruism through meditation. An eight-week randomized controlled pilot study.

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Författare :Kousha Safarzadeh; Erik Wallmark; [2011]
    Nyckelord :compassion; meditation; altruism; empathy; mindfulness; the four immeasurables; loving-kindness; equinimity; Medicine and Health Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : The general purpose of this randomized controlled pilot study was to investigate the potential effects of The Four Immeasurables Program on empathy and measures assumed to be related to the development of empathy and empathic concern for others such as perceived stress, mindfulness, and self-compassion. Of primary interest was to study whether the program can alter the dispositional tendency to feel empathic concern rather than personal distress when perceiving another as in need, termed other-orientation. LÄS MER