Compassion: an evolutionary analysis and empirical review.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Psychological bulletin

• Publication date

  2010-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/a0018807PMID 20438142PMCID PMC2864937
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