My Day Of Compassion Analysis

Compassion, to me, is having a concern for others in which you can act upon to help others. During my day of compassion, there were four notable recipients, including two strangers, a friend, and my roommate. I consider myself a compassionate and helpful person, however, I felt that I went out of my way to be compassionate which is the main purpose of taking one day to be compassionate towards others. The overall response of my assistance through my day of compassion was appreciation, except those that know me because to them, it was another day of just being helpful. This experience gave me a new outlook on selflessness and what true compassion is.

My first notable experience with my day of compassion was when I was leaving from the Coleman

Calling out individuals would be effective because the person would gain a sense of personal responsibility instead of going about their individual business. I feel that this will be the most effective method because when someone is asked to do something it has been proven that they are more likely to help when they are personally asked for something (Russell, 2018). Also, I feel that if I can personalize someone in need it to someone that can help it would increase their empathy and chances of helping because they will have a background knowledge of how they are about to help. This would also reduce cost of stress because the pressure would not just be on one specific person. There are many concepts in social psychology that can be used to foster a more compassionate society such as social responsibility, raising awareness of the bystander effect and increasing prosocial behaviors in this society. The bystander effect is a large issue in America, it is when the what is this become less likely to help someone because others are not helping. The reason that this is an issue is because it decreases compassion within our nation because we just assume that the person in need isn't truly in need when they very well could be. If the bystander effect were decreased then prosocial behavior would increase and others would be more likely to want to benefit another person (Russell, 2018). If we as a nation came together to be more compassionate, there be no limit of words positivity could come from