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Books by Kristin Neff

Kristin Neff is an associate professor in the department of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is one of the leading researchers in the field of self-compassion and developed the Self-Compassion Scale, the most widely used measure of self-compassion in psychological research. Together with clinical psychologist Christopher Germer she created the Mindful Self-Compassion training program. Her research appears in journals including Emotion, Motivation and Emotion, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.