2018
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
135 min
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A recent gathering of compassion researchers reveals new discoveries about how and why humans help each other.
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A new study fuses methods from several different branches of science to reveal the forces that shape kindness.
When someone needs help, what is your first impulse?
How do we define compassion? Is it an emotional state, a motivation, a dispositional trait, or a cultivated attitude? How does it compare to altruism and empathy? Chapters in this Handbook present critical scientific evidence about compassion in numerous conceptions.