Interview with Professor Tania Singer on Compassion and Empathy: Creating a Compassionate World

As part of the Creating a Compassionate World interview series, Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, President of the Compassionate Mind Foundation (compassionatemind.co.uk), interviews Professor Tania Singer

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First of all, I would like to thank you very much for your research and all your contributions. It is very nice to hear that compassion is now being researched with such commitment. But now I wonder whether this supposedly female or female-capable motivation can also have a negative impact. As a young man, I read a lot about how supposedly feminine behavior lowers testosterone levels (e.g., when men take care of their children) and negative effects on their bodies were observed as a result. Accordingly, I wonder if you have also observed, or are aware of, negative effects on testosterone or other biological markers from compassion exercises. For a long time, this thought has prevented me from acting out my caring, supposedly feminine side.

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You are fantastic! Thank you!