It’s better to give than to receive - the emotional benefits of compassionate acts are significant for the giver, whether or not the recipient is even aware of the act, in a study involving 175 newlyweds, that the authors said was designed to test a hypothesis put forth by the current Dalai Lama.

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Psychologists have found that the emotional benefits of compassionate acts are significant for the giver, whether or not the recipient is even aware of the act.

The psychologists discovered that donors benefit from compassionate acts, regardless of whether the recipient explicitly notices the acts.

Over the course of the 14 days, husbands and wives reported giving and receiving an average of.65 and.59 compassionate acts each day-with husbands perceiving more such acts than did their partners.

The acts included such things as changing personal plans for the partner's sake, doing something that showed the partner was valued, and expressing tenderness for the spouse.

They also thought the recipient would feel the most benefit when the act was mutually recognized, as opposed to those times when one partner perceived a compassionate act that wasn't actually intended.

"Clearly, a recipient needs to notice a compassionate act in order to emotionally benefit from it," said Reis.

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