Books
Makransky, J., & Condon, P. (2025). How compassion works: A step-by-step guide to cultivating well-being, love, and wisdom. Shambhala Publications.

Essays for a general audience

Condon, P. (2025). Recalling a caring moment. Psychology Today. Digital. Adapted excerpt from How Compassion Works. 

Condon, P. (2025). The relational starting point for compassion. Psychology Today. Digital. Adapted excerpt from How Compassion Works.

Makransky, J., & Condon, P. (2025). Using compassion for institutional and social change. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Digital. Excerpt from How Compassion Works.

Condon, P. (2023). Venturing beyond our fear of emptiness. Lion’s Roar. Digital

Condon, P. (2023). Buddha nature beyond mere concept. Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Guide, 21(4), 76-77.

Condon, P. (2022). Nurturing a relational mindset. Insights: Journey into the Heart of Contemplative Science. Digital.
*Cross posted as Condon, P (2023). Nurturing a relational mindset.  The Arrow: A Journal of Wakeful Society, Culture, & Politics. Digital.

Condon, P. (2021). You can take refuge right here. Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Guide, 19(4), 42-55.

Condon, P. (2020). Bridging psychology and contemplative practice to benefit hearts and minds today. Mind & Life Institute Blog. Digital.

Condon, P., & Makransky, J. (2020). Modern meditation needs to recover its communal heart. Psyche. Digital.

Academic articles
Condon, P. (in press). Benefactors across person, time, and place: The environments that help prime wellbeing and compassion. International Journal of Wellbeing.

Condon, P. (in press). Embodying care as a core capacity in health psychology: Learning through compassion-based meditation. In M. Oxland & R.A.R. Gurung. Teaching Health Psychology. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Condon, P. (2024). A social psychology and contemplative science perspective on character and virtue. Philosophy East & West, 74, 527-541.

Condon, P., & Makransky, J. (2023). Compassion and skillful means: Cultural adaptation, psychological science, and creative responsiveness. Mindfulness, 14, 2331-2341.

Colaianne, B., Condon, P., Tumminia, M., Galla, B., & Roeser, R. (2023). The role of relatedness: A short-term longitudinal study on the development of compassion in adolescence. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 88, 101569.

Condon, P., & Makransky, J. (2022). Compassion practices. In D. Rakel & V. Minichiello (Eds.), Integrative Medicine, 5th Ed. (pp. 831-835). Elsevier.

Wilson-Mendenhall, C.D., Condon, P., Hasenkamp, W., MacKerron, G., Quigley, K., & Barrett, L.F. (2022). The Qwantify app dataset: A remote experience sampling study of desire, emotion, and well-being. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1054292.

Condon, P., & Makransky, J. (2020). Recovering the relational starting point of compassion training: A foundation for sustainable and inclusive care. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 1346-1362.

Condon, P., & Makransky, J. (2020). Sustainable compassion training: Integrating meditation theory with psychological science. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2249.

Mascaro, J., Florian, M.P., Ash, M.J., Palmer, P.K., Frazier, T., Condon, P., & Raison, C. (2020). Ways of knowing compassion: How do we come to know, understand, and measure compassion when we see it? Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2467.

Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Dunne, J., & Condon, P. (2020). Achieving deep integration across disciplines: A process lens on investigating human flourishing. In N.E. Snow & D. Narvaez (Eds.), Self, motivation, and virtue: Innovative interdisciplinary research. Routledge.

Condon, P. (2019). Meditation in context: Factors that facilitate prosocial behavior. Current Opinion in Psychology, 28, 15-19.

Condon, P., Dunne, J., & Wilson-Mendenhall, C.D. (2019). Wisdom and compassion: A new perspective on the science of relationships. Journal of Moral Education, 48, 98-108.

DeSteno, D., Lim, D., Duong, F., & Condon, P. (2018). Meditation inhibits aggressive response to provocations. Mindfulness, 9, 1117-1122.

Siegel, E.H., Sands, M.K., Van Der Noortgate, W., Condon, P., Chang, Y., Dy, J., Quigley, K., Barrett, L.F. (2018). Emotion fingerprints or emotion populations? A meta-analytic investigation of autonomic features of emotion categories. Psychological Bulletin, 144, 343-393.

Condon, P., & DeSteno, D. (2017). Enhancing compassion: Social psychological perspectives. In E. Seppala, J. Doty, M. Worline, D. Cameron, S. Brown, & E. Simon-Thomas (Eds.), Oxford handbook of compassion science. Oxford University Press.

Condon, P. (2017). Mindfulness, compassion, and prosocial behavior. In J.C. Karremans & E.K. Papies (Eds.), Mindfulness in social psychology (pp. 124-138). Psychology Press.

DeSteno, D., Condon, P., & Dickens, L. (2016). Gratitude and compassion. In L.F. Barrett, J.M. Haviland-Jones, & M. Lewis (Eds.), Handbook of emotion, 4th Ed (pp. 835-846). Guilford Press.

Lim, D., Condon, P., & DeSteno, D. (2015). Mindfulness and compassion: A test of mechanism and scalability. PLOS One, 10: e0118221.

Condon, P., Wilson-Mendenhall, C.D., & Barrett, L.F. (2014). The psychological construction of positive emotion as a window into well-being. In J. Gruber & J. Moskowitz,  (Eds.), Positive emotion: Integrating the light sides and dark sides (pp. 11-33). Oxford University Press.

Condon, P., Wilson-Mendenhall, C.D., & Barrett, L.F. (2014). What is a positive emotion? The psychological construction of pleasant fear and unpleasant happiness. In M. Tugade, M.N. Shiota, & L.D. Kirby, (Eds.), Handbook of positive emotions (pp. 60-81). Guilford Press.

Condon, P., & Barrett, L.F. (2013). Conceptualizing and experiencing compassion. Emotion, 13, 817-821.

Condon, P., Desbordes, G., Miller, W.B., & DeSteno, D. (2013). Meditation increases compassionate responses to suffering. Psychological Science, 24, 2125-2127.

Bartlett, M.Y., Condon, P., Cruz, J., Baumann, J., & DeSteno, D. (2012). Gratitude: Prompting behaviours that build relationships. Cognition & Emotion, 26, 2-13.

Condon, P., & DeSteno, D. (2011). Compassion for one reduces punishment for another. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 698-701.