(Follow links to video of each speakers presentation).
		Bill Harbuagh, Economics, University of Oregon Receiving Charity study of altruism and neuroscience working on charitable giving donor-giver: cause of giving? compassion, receiver; he's looking at receiving side. negative feelings could arise anonymous gifts retributive gifts there's a stigma with aid do tests on students based on need, etc. students think of others in receiving aid
		Ulrich Mayr, Psychology, University of Oregon Motives for Altruistic Behavior
		Felix Warneken, Psychology, Max Planck Institute The Roots of Human Altruism
		Jim Andreoni, University of California, San Diego Economics of Altruism and Giving
		John Dunne, Religious Studies, Emory University
		Owen Flanagan, Philosophy, Duke University Is Compassion Overrated?
		Paul Ekman, Professor Emeritus, Psychology, UC San Francisco Darwin, Compassion, and the Dalia Lama talks about Darwin and sympathy similarity of Darwin thoughts and Buddhism Darwin had Buddhist views animals develop altruism story of monkey helping man against baboon compassion in animals and for animals Dalia Lama quotes on compassion emotion and emotional recognition types of compassion reviewed why do some people have compassion without training? need global compassion to be normative
		Richard Davidson, Psychology, University of Wisconsin Cultivating compassion: Neuroscientific and behavioral approaches
		Tania Singer, Neuroscience, Zurich University Social Emotions in Social Neuroscience: From Emotion Contagion to Empathy and Fairness fairness and compassion base cooperation clarification of terms emotional contagion; yawning, children crying pupils change mimicry; empathy; differentiation your feeling from the others I share your pain but it's not mine self other distinction cognitive empathy; cognitive perspective taking theory of mind abstract concept of the other not sharing feeling emotional empathy; sympathy; can have condescension quality compassion; an equality of sameness of humanity difficult to define deep awareness of the suffering of another wish to relive it human understanding the suffering of others prosocial behavior; empathic networks neural networks activation smelling disgusting odors pain empathy deficits alexithymia - difficulty in identifying and describing your own feelings have an empathy deficit pain, empathy, and fairness, male and female compassion training? empathy training- should start with training you to identify your own feelings autism empathy deficit is from alexithymia  study empathy training
		Thupten Jinpa, Stanford University/McGill University
		Thupten Jinpa, Talks about compassion as the underlying value of all religions. Also talks about The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at  Stanford. Research in basic science of compassion; neuro science, psychological, economic.
		Tracy Spinrad, Psychology, Arizona State University Empathy-Related Responding: A Developmental Psychology Perspective
		Wendy Farley, Religious Studies, Emory University
		Scotty McLennan, (author - his website)