If you?re kind of a jerk, but at least concerned about your jerk-ness, take heart: researchers say they?ve shown it?s possible to increase compassion in adults. The University of Wisconsin-Madison actually has a whole department dedicated to this kind of thing, the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, and researchers there set up an experiment recently to see if they could get a group of people to be more excellent to each other.
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