Compassion

This chapter examines the role of compassion in social justice efforts from a behavior analytic perspective. Social justice efforts rely on perspective taking skills and empathy as motivating operations for compassionate action on behalf of those who are suffering injustice. As a community of behavior analysts, our championing of social justice efforts are fully in line with words of Coretta Scott King who said, “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate action of its members.”