The Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science (Oxford Library of Psychology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0190464682 ISBN 13: 9780190464684

Publisher: OUP USA, 2017

Synopsis

Gathers evidence and models of compassion that treat the subject of compassion science with careful scientific scrutiny and concern

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About the Author

Emma M. Seppälä, PhD, is Science Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Yale College Emotional Intelligence Project at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She is the author of The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success (2016).

Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PhD, is the Science Director at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center (GGSC). Among other initiatives, she runs the GGSC Research Fellowship program and co-instructs GG101x: The Science of Happiness.

Stephanie L. Brown, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stony Brook University. She was the lead editor on the edited volume Moving Beyond Self-Interest: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and the Social Sciences (OUP 2011).

Monica C. Worline, PhD, is a research scientist at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and Executive Director of CompassionLab. She is also the founder and CEO of EnlivenWork.

Daryl Cameron, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University.

James R. Doty, MD, is the founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. He is a professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and the New York Times bestselling author of Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart (2016).

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190464682
• ISBN 13: 9780190464684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 552
• Editor: Seppälä Emma M., Simon-Thomas Emiliana, Brown Stephanie L., Worline Monica C., Cameron C. Daryl, Doty James R.