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World Economic Forum 2015 on Video: Tania Singer talks about the Neuroscience of Compassion
Tania Singer argues that training our brains help make the world a better place. According to Prof. Singer the brain’s plasticity can be trained which makes us less selfish and more compassionate. In this video for the World Economic Forum, Singer shows how our decision making is driven by a set of psychological motivations - from power to fear - that can be altered to help us make better decisions for society and for our health. This is at the core of our new model of “caring economics” that works towards sustainability and global cooperation.
Tania Singer speaks in a podcast from the World Economic Forum 2015 about "Deconstructing the Brain"
Tania Singer, Bob Knight (Director, Knight Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, University of California at Berkeley), David Helpern (Chief Executive Officer, The Behavioural Insights Team) and Mariette DiChristina (Editor-in-chief, Scientific American), dig deep into the brain to explain behaviour and decision making in this podcast. The podcast can be found .
World Economic Forum 2015: Tania Singer at Session on Health and Wellbeing
At the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 24, 2015, Tania Singer (Director of the Department of Social Neuroscience, , Germany), Robert J. Shiller (Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University, USA), Matthieu Ricard (President and Co-Founder, Karuna-Shechen, France) and Gianpiero Petriglieri (Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour, INSEAD, France), discuss during the session on Health and Wellbeing the links between neuroscience and compassion.
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Tania Singer shares her insights from research on training adults to be more compassionate. First evidence points to the finding that the human brain can indeed be trained like a muscle to be more receptive for compassion and according behavior. This suggests that such training can change selfish preferences into the more altruistic and prosocial ones that are needed to subserve global cooperation. More details can be found .
Building A Caring Economy
January 24, 2015
Tania Singer describes in a new article that more compassion can transform the global economy.
IdeasLab at the World Economic Forum 2014
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
The WEF Annual Meeting took place in Davos, Switzerland from the 22-25 January 2014.
Tania SingerThe Role of Human Nature in Economics |
Dennis SnowerCaring Economics |
Mind and Life Europe Symposium for Contemplative Studies
The first Mind and Life Europe Symposium for Contemplative Studies took place from 10 - 13 October 2013 in Berlin.
Redefine Success
October 01, 2013
Are humans individualistic, selfish profit optimizers? Or are they also motivated by motivations such as compassion and care?
Prof. Dennis J. Snower argues that conventional economic analysis focuses excessively on selfish, materialistic behavior and thus creates the misleading impression that wellbeing always rests on the satisfaction of material desires. But large bodies of evidence indicate that, for those who are already materially secure, material gains do not give long lasting pleasure. Instead we should give attention to the accumulation of internal prosperity that flows from giving and connecting with others, since these have a profound and long-lasting influence on our wellbeing.
Prof. Snower summarized this concept in his opening address for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 that can be downloaded here.
Global Economic Symposium
The Global Economic Symposium took place from October 1st to 2nd 2013 in Kiel, Germany! The overarching theme was "Redefining Success". Approximately 600 leading decision makers from politics, business, finance, academia, and civil society participated.
Multimedia eBook
Compassion. Bridging Practice and Science
September 16, 2013
Questions about the difference between empathy and compassion, or about whether compassion can be learned, are now answered by a newly published eBook. Edited by Tania Singer and Matthias Bolz from the , the book also explains how mental training transforms the human brain, and that compassion can reduce pain. The book thus provides not only a unique overview of current research into empathy and compassion, but also offers an exciting way of approaching the topic for interested readers—including useful advice for everyday life.
The eBook can be downloaded free of charge at: www.compassion-training.org
The ReSource Project
The ReSource Project of Tania Singer is a unique, large-scale study on Eastern and Western methods of mental training. Over a period of eleven months, participants practice a wide range of mental exercises that are designed to enhance attentional control, body- and self-awareness, healthy emotion regulation, self-care, compassion, empathy, and perspective taking.
Overall the aim of the training is to improve mental health and social skills. It may reduce stress, improve mental clarity, increase life satisfaction, and lead to a better understanding of other’s views, values and actions.
More information can be found here: www.resource-project.org