Matthew Feinberg, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University in California (formerly a PhD candidate in the department of psychology at UC Berkeley). The study was published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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