This is lovingkindness meditation, and they were labeled the lovingkindness group, or LKM.

Both groups had a more positive rating of the stranger face that they had worked with, but only the lovingkindness compassion group, it spread to all the other strangers, and it even spread to objects, and it, they rated, you know, everything as more positive.

Well, so you just work with one person, and that effect is kind of magnified.

All of a sudden, people are, are, oh, oh yeah, strangers are, are people too, with, you know, loved ones and hopes and dreams and sufferings.

And, and it, it just kind of broadens, gives you a more panoram perspective.

Dr. Julie sees larger implications in the study because of the way our brains work

When you see a person, there's a paired emo- uh, um, a paired knee-jerk feeling tone, you know, and that could be either very positive or very negative or kind of in the neutral zone, right? There's also that kind of, like, insignificant...

You know, it's almost like our brain is, like, stamping, you know, this person is, ooh, enemy, uh, friend, uh, insignificant.