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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 14.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2009 May 5;47(3):1038–1046. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.04.081

Figure 1. Compassion increases emotional cardiovascular arousal.

Figure 1

Average HR significantly increased from neutral to compassion states for 10 experts (red) and 13 novices (blue) (main effect of State, see Table 1). During both states, emotional vocalizations were presented to the participants. Note that the practitioners showed significantly larger HR increase than the novices (State by Group interaction, see Table 1).