Support WBURThe Science of CompassionPlay20:05Download AudioMaggie PenmanShankar VedantamOctober 20, 2015 Share"Compassion is contagious," Professor Scott Plous says. "We talk about paying it forward; the idea that if you do something good for another person [...] it sets off a kind of chain reaction." (Hanna Barczyk for NPR)
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