“…There is a long history of philosophical and spiritual writings, highlighting the value of compassion as an antidote to suffering and anti-social behavior (Dalai Lama, 1995;Lampert, 2005;Ricard, 2015). However, it has only been in the last 30 years or so that we have seen substantial research on the neurophysiological, psychological, and social dimensions of compassion and compassion training (for reviews see Weng et al, 2013;Gilbert, 2017a;Seppälä et al, 2017;Stevens and Woodruff, 2018;Petrocchi and Cheli, 2019;Singer and Engert, 2019;Di Bello et al, 2020;Kim et al, 2020a). This work has been accompanied by the development of various forms of general compassion training (e.g., Jazaieri et al, 2013;Singer and Engert, 2019;Condon and Makransky, 2020) and cultivating compassion to address personal problems like self-criticism (Neff and Germer, 2017) and mental health issues (Germer and Siegel, 2012;Kirby and Gilbert, 2017).…”