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The ability to feel compassion-essentially, being touched by the suffering of others, coupled with the wish to relieve it -is an important asset in a social species such as ours. The authors investigate a natural but under-studied antecedent of compassion, namely trait mindfulness, that is, the ability or propensity to engage in "nonelaborative, non-judgmental, present-centered awareness in which each thought, feeling, or sensation that arises in the attentional field is acknowledged". As is the case with mindfulness, many current conceptualizations of compassion (e_g, view compassion as a conglomerate of different . . .
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