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We need to design economic systems so that they work to the benefit of all. Compassion science is showing us how.

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From Inner Change Towards a More Caring Economy: The Neuroscience of Motivation, Care and Compassion

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Economics

Inducing empathy towards a specific situation of need, pain, or distress increases altruistic behavior in economic interactions

Empathy promotes altruistic behavior in economic interactions

Klimecki, O. M., Mayer, S. V., Jusyte, A., Scheeff, J., & Schönenberg, M.

Stress leads to decreased trust

The effects of stress and affiliation on social decision-making: Investigating the tend-and-befriend pattern

2015Steinbeis, N., Engert, V., Linz, R., & Singer, TPsychoneuroendocrinology

Economic decision making is context-sensitive and motive-based. Care and power motivation have a dissociable fingerprint in shaping either cooperative or punishment behaviors.

Caring Cooperators and Powerful Punishers: Differential Effects of Induced Care and Power Motivation on Different Types of Economic Decision Making

2017Chierchia, G., Lesemann, F.H.P., Snower, D., Vogel, M., & Singer, T.Nature Scientific Reports

We need to fundamentally reimagine and learn anew what it means to be human

Limits to consumption

2022Mamphela Ramphele”The Limits to Consumption – How are the limits to growth impacting our lifestyle?” Conference

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