Sending stuffed animals for a sleepover at the library encourages children to read with them, even long after the sleepover took place, say researchers in
It’s normal to not always act on your sense of compassion—for example, by walking past a beggar on the street without giving them any money. ... Read more
Study published in the journal Psychological Science shows that compassion and altruism are learnable
Study published in the journal Psychological Science shows that compassion and altruism are learnable
Atheists and agnostics are more driven by compassion to help others than are highly religious people, a new study finds.
A new study suggests non-believers are more likely than the faithful to be generous when they see a stranger in need
We can be healthier, live longer, and make the world a better place by exploring our potential for compassionate behavior, according to neurosurgeon Ja ...
New study shows why you need to show some tenderness toward your partner.
Loving kindness meditation cultivates compassion and altruism.
Connection and disconnection in the mind.
People can actually become more compassionate and charitable with training, claim researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Investigating Healthy Minds.
Compassionate workplaces - good for employees AND the corporate bottom line.
Studies highlight how compassion is good for a company's bottom line.
Transform your relationship with an addicted partner or family member.
Fostering compassion can defeat bullying
Science shows that we are actually wired for compassion, not self-interest.
A new set of studies suggests that compassion -- and intentionally cultivating it through training -- may lead us to do more to help the wronged than to punish the wrongdoer.
Until now, little was scientifically known about the human potential to cultivate compassion -- the emotional state of caring for people who are suffering in a way that motivates altruistic behavior. A new study by researchers at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that adults can be trained to be more compassionate.
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Research shows ways to avoid empathy's pitfalls while remaining altruistic.
Scientific evidence shows that we can teach our brains to feel more compassion, both for others and ourselves. Imagine how the world might be different if we all learned this skill. <meta property=
Yes, we may by physically isolated right now. But in times like this, we can still come together to share something amazing: compassion.
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(Phys.org) —That Homo sapiens exhibits both cooperative and competitive behavior is a topic that continues to be the subject of ongoing discussion. In terms of cooperation, altruism (a selfless type of prosocial behavior in which an organism acts to benefit another at a cost to itself), has received significant attention from evolutionary biologists, neuroscientists, economists, psychologists, philosophers, social scientists, game theorists, and computer scientists. In particular, altruistic p
Prosocial behavior, or "voluntary behavior intended to benefit another", is a social behavior that "benefit[s] other people or society as a whole",Prosocial behavior, PsychWiki.com, Aug.
The interaction between brain areas during a generous act may reveal the reasons underlying such behavior
Exploding the fake scientific consensus on violent video games
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The American Psychological Association thinks so.
Uncertainty is a fundamental feature of human life that can be fractioned into two distinct psychological constructs: risk (known probabilistic outcomes) and ambiguity (unknown probabilistic outcomes). Although risk and ambiguity are known to powerfully bias nonsocial decision-making, their influence on prosocial behavior remains largely unexplored. Here we show that ambiguity attitudes, but not risk attitudes, predict prosocial behavior: the greater an individual’s ambiguity tolerance, th
With our divided politics and fierce news media, it’s easy to lose faith in human goodness. Everyone seems to be out to get each other. However, altruism is still a potent force in the world. An…
Testosterone can bolster either dominance or reciprocity.
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What makes a kindergartener willing to share? New research finds that specific brain markers predict generosity in children.
Children who play violent video games may experience an increase in aggressive thoughts, which in turn, could boost their aggressive behavior, a controversial new study conducted in Singapore suggests.
18.12.2014 - University of Chicago developmental neuroscientists have found specific brain markers that predict generosity in children. Those neural markers appear to be linked to both social and moral evaluation processes.
Children who play violent video games may experience an increase in aggressive thoughts, which in turn, could boost their aggressive behavior, a controversial new study conducted in Singapore suggests.
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Do violent video games make people more aggressive? Politicians and pundits have been asking that question for years now, and although everyone thinks they know the answer, scientific studies have yet to come up with results that satisfy even the most basic probing.
Microsoft has killed off its mp3 music player the Zune to focus on its Windows Phone offering. Microsoft folded the Zune on the eve of Apple's big iPhone announcement.
A study out of Iowa of 130 research reports on more than 130,000 subjects worldwide concludes that exposure to violent video games results in more aggressive, less empathetic youths.
Exploding the fake scientific consensus on violent video games
Reel violence does not lead to real violence.
Asking people about morality and empathy may not yield sincere answers. Moral sentiments, can, indeed, be measured.
Children who play violent video games may experience an increase in aggressive thoughts, which in turn, could boost their aggressive behavior, a controversial new study conducted in Singapore suggests.
Children who play violent video games may experience an increase in aggressive thoughts, which in turn, could boost their aggressive behavior, a controversial new study conducted in Singapore suggests.
Does watching violence on TV, in movies, or video games promote aggression?
Testosterone can bolster either dominance or reciprocity.
One of the most fundamental tasks we have as social creatures is to figure out whom we can trust, whom we should help and who means us harm.
As the evolution of video games as a major entertainment medium marches on, you would expect to see more and more studies done as to their effects. And, since the chief topic among those having this conversation seems to center around the effect of...
Are there social benefits associated with playing video games?
In a new study, children from religious families were less likely to share with others than were children from non-religious families. A religious upbringing also was associated with more punitive tendencies in response to anti-social behavior.
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New research findings have shown that employees who work with animals gain an unintended benefitdeveloping greater compassion. The research from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School suggests that this greater compassion leads employees to work better with their colleagues.
‘I am honestly attracted to horses and Im [sic] looking for a longer term relationship with one,’ said a letter the man allegedly wrote to a farmer. A New Jersey man has been charged with ...
According to the zoo's announcement on Friday, six African lions, a Sumatran tiger, and two Amur tigers all tested positive for the coronavirus.
Three family friendly outdoor programs are scheduled.
Whether he's playing a diabolical vampire or a loving husband, Alexander Scarsgard can conjure darkness and light with equal skill
Get an in-depth look at hunting in Red Dead Redemption 2 with these tips and breakdowns of the mechanics.
Burlesque star Dita Von Teese unveils her latest latest lingerie collection
Three mummified animals from ancient Egypt have been digitally unwrapped and dissected by researchers, using high-resolution 3-D scans that give unprecedented detail about the animals' lives—and deaths—over 2000 years ago.
Underwater technology reveals how these elusive creatures feed
The promotion’s earnestness harkens back to the early ‘00s and the unironic (and therefore, laughable) sincerity of anime ads.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is possibly the last anime you'd expect to help you understand about acceptance in video games, but we're always full of surprises here at Game Revolution.
Dita Von Teese is Pilates Flexible Dita Von Teese starts off a healthy new year by going to pilates in Hollywood on Friday (January 2). The 36-year-old burlesque beauty seemed to be quite flexible,…
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Animation company Nelvana was sowing and reaping Thursday, with the multimillion-dollar purchase of rights to a Japanese animation series and quarterly financials boosted by recent strategies and divisions.
John Cannizzaro Jr. (born 1943), better known as John Canemaker, is an American independent animator, animation historian, author, teacher and lecturer.
Renaissance art tends to be a bit stuffy, with horrible depictions of Bible stories and luxurious portraits of royalty, making it a long-time target for parody. In The Procession to Calvary, Developer Joe Richardson makes good use of the principle that old paintings are funny in a point-and-click adventure that strips Renaissance figures from their fancy frames and pastes them into Monty Python-style collages.The Holy War is over and the lands are finally free from the tyranny of Heavenly Peter.
The Mazda Kabura Concept is punctuated by short overhangs, bold wheel arches filled with 245/35 tires on 19-inch front and 20-inch rear alloy wheels, and a subtle but functional drop-down character line that increases the scale of the door glass.
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” ruled the box office for the second week and “Guardians of the Galaxy” was runner-up in its third week, leaving three very different new films — “Let’s Be Cops,” “The Expendables 3” and “The Giver” — fighting for the remaining spots in the top five.
Some animated movies are remembered for just how strange they were, from 'Fritz the Cat' to 'Heavy Metal'.
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New details have emerged on the upcoming Lars von Trier TV show, The House That Jack Built. The eight-part English-language series follows a serial killer.
German anatomists plan a new show dedicated solely to dead bodies having sex as part of the Body Worlds exhibitions.
Dreamworks Animation spent $155 million buying up over 400 over-the-hill intellectual properties.
La Vie en Rose, directed by Olivier Dahan, written by Dahan and Isabelle Sobelman
Annette Bening and Jamie Bell give standout performances in Films Stars Don't Die In Liverpool. Here's our review...
Thousands of people in Australia and around the world have rallied to knit and crochet comfort items for wildlife. Their efforts are the latest in a long history of crafting for a cause.
The Iraqi-American started Huda Beauty with her two sisters in 2013, according to Forbes, which this year ranked her 36th in net worth among "America's self-made women."
Idealism and Invention: Lars von Trier's Trying Masterpiece "Dogville"
Apart from the widespread invasion of the Isekai genre in the world of anime, another major trend that has completely transformed it is Netflix’s involvement as a producer and distributor of anime shows. While old popular anime show like ‘Naruto‘ and ‘Death Note‘ are now available at the tip of our fingers, even Netflix’s new […]
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Henn, who started his career on "The Fox and the Hound" and had animated five Disney princesses, was sent by the studio to retrain in new technologies. "The Princess and the Frog," in theaters today, reunites the creative minds behind some of Disney's best films of the 1980s and 1990s- for a movie that is unapologetically hand-drawn. Henn's colleague Michael Surrey is the supervising animator for Ray, a daft but well-meaning firefly who contributes much of the film's comic
There's plenty studios can learn from Netflix's adaptation of Yu Yu Hakusho when adapting anime.
It may give them square eyes, but Apple's iPhone and iPad also seem to be great teaching aids with a range of toddler-minded apps in store. We take a look at some of the best.
Kobe Bryant's multimedia production company made the short available after the Lakers star's death on Sunday.
A video from Insider follows (and explains) the changes in animation techniques and technological standards that have affected The Simpsons' look over more than 30 years of episodes.
"Opera" director and animator Erick Oh breaks down his animated short Oscar contender.
In a previous article, I explained how I created the Slidable widget. Today we’re going to dissect an essential component of it: the SlidableDrawerDelegate. In the Slidable widget, the developer can…
/PRNewswire/ -- For years, anime fans have been making McDonald's-inspired "WcDonald's" restaurants a part of anime's most memorable movies and shows. Now, in...
A feature future via YouTube? Rainmaker Entertainment has been angling for some time to get into the big leagues of animation production. Now, it's trying to Zap its way in.
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We follow the art and animation development from concept to implementation to get a better sense of how Mickey and his world came to life.
In this Disney classic, the evil Maleficent casts a spell on Princess Aurora that can only be broken with true love's kiss.
Cartoon Network and Black Women Animate partner for new award show, Black in Animation Awards. Singer Estelle will host the event.
Briefly: Last week Walt Disney Animation Studios announced a new title for their 2010 computer animated release Rapunzel — Tangled. Disney has released a new logo for the film. For those who care, you can see the logo above. Directed by Byron Howard & Nathan Greno (the co-director and head of story on Bolt respectively), …
Cinderella director is fascinated by the endurance of the famous story and never had any intention of modernizing it
Disney animator Ruben Aquino infuses difficult characters in movies such as 'Brother Bear' with the magic of life.
Your guide to Season 2 of Joel McHale's Fox sitcom Animal Control, with everything we know so far about the cast, plot, creators, and more.
In 10 Words or Less Disney's first "true" animated film gets the special-edition treatment The Movie Pocahontas is probably the animated Disney film least likely to appeal to children. Whether it's t
This project packs dozens of unique styles and idiosyncratic characters into one schizophrenic 5-minute clip.
The Movie: While I've been consistently impressed and often amazed with Japanese animation, "Metropolis" is one of the stranger and more fascinating examples of the genre that I've run across. The fi
The high stakes. The drama. The enticing tales of underdogs. If you think about it, competitive sports have all the important elements of good storytelling. That’s probably the reason why even the medium of anime does not hold itself back from presenting inspiring chronicles of athletes who are willing to go against all odds. But […]
Since she was three years old, Kira Lehtomaki has known that she wanted to be an animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
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