研究：哪种同情心带来的益处最大
This Type of Compassion Brings Us the Most Benefit, Study Shows
APS报道的一项研究显示，帮助他人能让人更快乐，这种效应也延伸到关心动物。临床心理学家Paul Gilbert（未参与该研究）指出，同情是体察他人乃至自己的痛苦并希望缓解它，是面对共同苦难的勇气与智慧。材料未提供该研究的样本、设计与发表信息。
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Studies have long suggested that helping others can make us feel happier, and this extends to caring about animals too — as anyone who volunteers can attest.
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Paul Gilbert, a clinical psychologist who created the Compassion Focused Therapy method, said compassion is about being considerate of someone’s suffering — including your own — and hoping to ease it. Gilbert was not a part of Khoury’s study.
“Compassion really is the courage and wisdom to address suffering, whether it’s within you or other people,” Gilbert said. “Compassion is the way we deal with the mutual suffering of all of us.”
来源：心理科学协会 APS · psychologicalscience.org