There’s no such thing as compassion fatigue and we should drop it from our vocabulary immediately! This term, along with most of the others used to describe the emotions we battle when working with research animals, just makes things worse. Confused? Our guest from the Two Truths episode, Lisa Kelly, returns today to spell it out for us…on GetReal!

Compassion is neurologically rewarding. It doesn’t “fatigue”…

The neurobiological link between compassion and love (Medical Science Monitor, 2011)

Empathy and compassion (Current Biology, 2014)

Compassion does not fatigue! (The Canadian Veterinary Journal, 2018)

Neural correlates of compassion – An integrative systematic review (International Journal of Psychology, 2021)