Compassion
Dimension 697 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Compassion measures the tendency to feel concern, sympathy, and moral responsiveness toward other people, especially those who are suffering, vulnerable, or less fortunate. It encompasses emotional softness, willingness to consider others' hardship, and reactions ranging from indifference or harshness to active sympathetic concern.
evidence final name · Opening Minds Providers
Absent Compassion
Expressions activating this band do not show recognizable compassion content and are largely unrelated to concern for others' suffering or hardship.
Low Compassion
Expressions activating this band show limited or inconsistent concern for others, with scattered references to difficulty, hopelessness, or social problems but little clear sympathetic engagement. Compassion appears only weakly, indirectly, or in mixed form.
Moderate Compassion
Expressions activating this band show identifiable concern for other people's feelings and welfare, alongside judgments about blame, fairness, or personal responsibility. Compassion is present as softness of heart or discomfort with others' hurt, but it remains selective and qualified.
High Compassion
Expressions activating this band show clear sympathy and concern for people who are hurt, struggling, or vulnerable, including attention to the human consequences of hardship and policy. Compassion is experienced as caring about others' problems and rejecting heartless or dismissive reactions.
Deep Compassion
Expressions activating this band show strong, explicit sympathy for people who are poor, homeless, needy, or otherwise less fortunate. Compassion is experienced as emotionally salient concern for suffering and a generous orientation toward helping rather than dismissing those in hardship.
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Minimal Opening Minds Providers: Expressions show no meaningful opening minds providers content. The proxy is effectively absent. Expressions activating this band are unrelated to opening minds providers.
Emerging Opening Minds Providers: Opening minds providers is clearly present at this level. This is the first band where opening minds providers becomes detectable. Expressions activating this band reflect opening minds providers at this level of intensity.
Elevated Opening Minds Providers: Opening minds providers is clearly present at this level. Compared to the band below, opening minds providers is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band reflect opening minds providers at this level of intensity.
Severe Opening Minds Providers: Opening minds providers is clearly present at this level. Compared to the band below, opening minds providers is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band reflect opening minds providers at this level of intensity.