From Oxytocin to Compassion: The Saliency of Distress
Compassion is a warm response of care and concern for those who are suffering, which drives individuals to devote their resources for the sake of others.A prominent neuroevolutionary framework grounds compassion in the neurobiology of the mammalian caregiving system.Accordingly, it has been suggested that the oxytocinergic system, which plays a cen