Jennifer Brenton-Peters you should feel really proud of your final PhD publication 👏Finding kindness: A randomized controlled trial of an online self‐compassion intervention for weight management (SC4WM) - British Journal of Health Psychology - bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The New Zealanders are coming! Dr Alina Pavlova & Nathan Consedine will be presenting during the opening plenary at the 2023 UQPsych Compassion Symposium! We're excited to hear about the wonderful research coming out of University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau Get your tickets here: payments.uq.edu.au/UQPCET101/book…

Is there more to developing #selfcompassion than reducing negative affect? New mediational study of personal values by @jane Dr Anna Sofia Serlachius James N. Kirby and others. rdcu.be/dkkK1

This sounds eerily familiar to the comments our our recent participants eh Dr Alina Pavlova ?

New publication alert from Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences Health Psychology Auckland Compassion Lab ft Nathan Consedine #DrSarahJanePaine Anne O'Callaghan & Alana Cavadino "Do I care for you more when you really need help? How clinical #urgency affects #compassion in #healthcare" 🚀‼️doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.1…

Here's a stunning essay by Freya India on how the new customizable AI girlfriends, marketed to men, will affect women. It's not just the customizable bodies and faces; its also the emotions and personalities that will warp real relationships: freyaindia.co.uk/p/we-cant-comp…

What types of things disgust you? Let us know on our new website ickystuff.org! You can write about your experiences with disgusting things in as much detail as you like. And you can take a test that'll tell you how easily disgusted you are. Retweets are appreciated!

Compassion is hindered in healhtcare when organizational and personal values are misaligned. Access the open access article we co-authored with our research partners in New Zealand doi.org/10.1111/joim.1… Dr Alina Pavlova Nathan Consedine Health Psychology Auckland #compassion #compassionatecare

In a world where it feels like we are growing apart, how do we make the opposite happen and grow our moral circles? Our new paper, just accepted in Mindfulness, found a brief compassion focused intervention can do just this! Charlie Crimston Dr. April Hoang Global Compassion Coalition UQPsych

In a new pre-print experience sampling study led by Deanna Varley we found noticing your suffering & not acting leads to -ve emotional experience, but if you do act it leads to +ve emotional experience. Self-compassion for the win osf.io/preprints/psya…

And finally, one of my favorite papers that we published last year, this time from Patricia Cernadas Curotto showing how compassion training can bring people to feel closer in spite of conflicts: nature.com/articles/s4159…

It was great fun talking with Rachel about how self-compassion is so important with how we motivate ourselves when working towards goals stories.uq.edu.au/contact-magazi…

Results indicate that for those with depression a brief Compassion Focused Therapy exercise can increase HRV, at two distinct timepoints, pre- and post- a two-week self-directed training period, even when controlling for respiration. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Many congratulations to @AliPvlov a who successfully defended her Health Psychology Auckland PhD on #compassion in #healthcare as well as being award the Atlantis Healthcare prize for PhD publication and being placed on the Dean's List for Exceptional Dissertations Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences

Lots of clever people finishing up at #aps2024uk and I’m pondering the real issue: how did full body deodorant become a thing

When there's a gap between personal and organization values, compassion can slip through the cracks. Read the article authored by Dr Alina Pavlova Nathan Consedine and the Compassion Research Lab's Shane Sinclair onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…. #compassion #organizationalcompassion

Great new paper just accepted which was led by Deanna Varley with co-author Dr Chase Sherwell from UQPsych. Here we looked at compassion in everyday and how attachment style influenced this, particularly opportunities…..more to come soon

New paper alert 🚨 with Nathan Consedine. "Described as fragmented, disconnected, & alienating, the culture of NZ secondary healthcare poses serious challenges to compassion". Read more about solutions proposed & waiting to be implemented >> doi.org/10.1016/j.socs…

Disgust trumps lust. Awesome new study on #disgust and #sex from Charmaine Borg and Diana S. Fleischman link.springer.com/article/10.100…