Training Emotion Cultivates Morality: How Loving-Kindness Meditation Hones Compassion and Increases Prosocial Behavior

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  2015

• Venue

  Journal of religion and health

• Publication date

  2015-01-30

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1007/s10943-014-9999-8PMID 25633082
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