The Human Experience of Compassionate LoveConceptual Mapping and Data from Selected Studies

Does passage meditation foster compassionate love among health professionals?: a randomised trial

“…Total compassionate love scores ranging from 1 to 6 were computed as the two items' mean. Qualitative and quantitative evidence in previous studies have supported convergent and divergent validity (Underwood, 2002(Underwood, , 2008, and baseline internal reliability in this study was adequate ( ¼ 0.74). Underwood (2008) noted that ''the two DSES items do not fully operationalize compassionate love, but they do begin to get at the assessment of the internal elements involved in the model.…”

“…Overall, recent work on compassionate love has been summarised in a volume edited by . This volume provides considerable evidence in support of Underwood's (2002Underwood's ( , 2008 theoretical framework linking compassionate love to various outcomes, and to substrate, discernment, and motivational factors (Perlman & Arago´n, 2008). Compassionate love research has also been informed by decades of research on closely aligned constructs, such as compassion, gratitude, and forgiveness (Lopez & Snyder, 2003;Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2004;Sorokin, 1954Sorokin, /2002.…”

“…Emerging research on compassionate love has been tied together by a conceptual foundation supplied by Underwood (2002Underwood ( , 2008. In her framework, compassionate love is viewed as arising from substrate conditions that include emotional and cognitive factors, such as empathy, as well as cultural, environmental, social, and other situational influences.…”

Religious song as a facilitator of prosocial behavior

“…For example, religiosity facilitates everyday minimal-cost helping (Batara, 2015), cooperation and generosity (Ahmed, 2009), and even philanthropy (Lincoln, Morrissey, & Mundey, 2008). Religious individuals have also been stereotyped as helpful, generous, compassionate, and empathic (Lewis, MacGregor, & Putnam, 2013;Saroglou, Pichon, Trompette, Verschueren, & Dernelle, 2005;Underwood, 2002). Saroglou (2012) also found that in the data of European Social Survey (2006)(2007), religious people also were mostly helping Religious song as a facilitator of prosocial behavior…”

Front Matter

“…This volume uses the model of compassionate love articulated by Lynn Underwood (2002Underwood ( , 2005, see also Chapter 1, this volume) to enable these disciplines to communicate with each other. This model also provides cohesiveness for this volume, as each chapter links its work to the model.…”