my shortcomings, in the kindness, courtesy, and help I have invariably received from the Council and from the Society at large?a support without which it would have been impossible for me to have attempted to maintain the dignity of the Chair which I am about to demit. This kindness on your part, moreover, has made my term of office one of the pleasantest of my life, and one which has not been ...

There has been substantial recent interest in determining why there is cooperation in public goods experiments even in environments that provide all subjects with the incentive to free ride (see e.g., John O. Ledyard, 1995). Theories used to explain such cooperation generally posit either that subjects are “confused” in the sense that they make errors or do not understand the game’s incentives,...

Mindfulness-based meditation interventions have become increasingly popular in contemporary psychology. Other closely related meditation practices include loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion meditation (CM), exercises oriented toward enhancing unconditional, positive emotional states of kindness and compassion. This article provides a review of the background, the techniques, and th...

Many scholars draw on evidence from evolutionary biology, behavioral economics, and infant research to argue that humans are “noble savages,” endowed with indiscriminate kindness. We believe this is mistaken. While there is evidence for an early-emerging moral sense—even infants recognize and favor instances of fairness and kindness among third parties—altruistic behaviors are selective from th...

The study aimed to investigate the effects of loving-kindness meditation on positive emotions, intragroup interactions, and complex understanding of others. A total of 50 freshmen not receiving any training in meditation intervention were randomly divided into the meditation group (25 subjects) and the control group (25 subjects). The meditation group was implemented with group meditation inter...

In this paper I argue for the claim that self-love is a precondition for self-knowledge. This claim is relevant to the contemporary philosophical debate on self-knowledge, but mainly because it draws attention to the role of claims of self-knowledge in the larger context of our ordinary practice of rationalizing and appropriating our actions. In this practice it is crucial for persons to open-m...

Literary works is a form of someone’s creation that has meaning or purpose by the author. as result human will never be separated from language which main medium in literary works. This research aims to analyze minor character, Luna Lovegood using qualitative method based on theory Robert Stanton. Stanton said there are four ways character: character’s words, behavior, conversations between and...

Self-compassion is conceptualized as containing 3 core components: self-kindness versus self-judgment, common humanity versus isolation, and mindfulness versus overidentification, when relating to painful experiences. Research evidence demonstrates that self-compassion is related to psychological flourishing and reduced psychopathology. Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an 8-week training progra...

The purpose of this study is to examine the predictive role of self-compassion on social well-being. Participants were 329 university students (170 women, 159 men; M age = 20.5 yr.). In this study, the Self-compassion Scale and the Social Well-being Scale were used. The relationships between self-compassion and social well-being were examined using correlation analysis and multiple regression a...

B. L. Fredrickson's (1998, 2001) broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions asserts that people's daily experiences of positive emotions compound over time to build a variety of consequential personal resources. The authors tested this build hypothesis in a field experiment with working adults (n = 139), half of whom were randomly-assigned to begin a practice of loving-kindness meditation. R...