From Oxytocin to Compassion : The Saliency of Distress

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F23%3A00130248" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/23:00130248 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/12/2/183" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/12/2/183</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology12020183" target="_blank" >10.3390/biology12020183</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From Oxytocin to Compassion : The Saliency of Distress

Original language description

Compassion is a warm response of care and concern for those who are suffering, which drives individuals to devote their resources for the sake of others. A prominent neuroevolutionary framework grounds compassion in the neurobiology of the mammalian caregiving system. Accordingly, it has been suggested that the oxytocinergic system, which plays a central role in parental caregiving and bonding, provides the neurobiological foundation for compassion towards strangers. Yet, the specific role of oxytocin in compassion is far from clear. The current paper aims to target this gap and offer a theoretical framework that integrates the state-of-the-art literature on oxytocin with research on compassion. We suggest that oxytocin mediates compassion by enhancing the saliency of cues of pain and distress and discuss the plausible underlying neurobiological substrates. We further demonstrate how the proposed framework can account for individual differences in compassion, focusing on the effects of attachment on caregiving and support. The proposed framework integrates the current scientific understanding of oxytocin function with compassion-related processes. It thus highlights the largely ignored attentional processes in compassion and taps into the vast variability of responses in social contexts involving pain and suffering.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biology

ISSN

2079-7737

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

000938373900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85148944002