I vaguely recall some results that indicated greater likelihood of experiencing an emotional reaction in response to seeing someone else modeling that emotion (e.g., reporting being sad when someone else in the same room was crying) after taking some drug or another… seratonin, maybe?… but it was many years ago and I may well be misremembering.
Which isn’t quite the same thing as compassion, of course, but it wouldn’t surprise me to discover they were correlated.
People at the longecity forum seem to be taking serotonin precursors, including 5-HTP and tryptophan. I’m not sure exactly what benefits they expect to receive, but improved mood is at least one of them.
I vaguely recall some results that indicated greater likelihood of experiencing an emotional reaction in response to seeing someone else modeling that emotion (e.g., reporting being sad when someone else in the same room was crying) after taking some drug or another… seratonin, maybe?… but it was many years ago and I may well be misremembering.
Which isn’t quite the same thing as compassion, of course, but it wouldn’t surprise me to discover they were correlated.
People at the longecity forum seem to be taking serotonin precursors, including 5-HTP and tryptophan. I’m not sure exactly what benefits they expect to receive, but improved mood is at least one of them.