RQ: This scenario based study aims to examine whether individuals are more likely to engage in acts of compassion, compared to acts of kindness, when the target of help is someone they dislike (versus someone they like). Design: **STUDY 1:** 2 (Scenario Type: compassion, kindness) x 2 (Target of Help: liked other, disliked other) betweenn-participants factorial design, with willingness to help and emotional response as dependent variables. **STUDY 2:** 2 (Scenario Type: compassion, kindness) x 2 (Target of Help: liked other, disliked other) within-participants factorial design, with willingness to help and emotional response as dependent variables. Hypotheses for willingness to help: • Main effect of Target of Help: Overall, more willing to help a liked other compared to disliked other, regardless of scenario type. • Scenario Type x Target of Help interaction: We expect that individuals will engage in compassionate acts towards disliked others significantly more than kind acts. Additionally, this study aims to distinguish the emotional profiles associated with kindness compared to compassion. We expect to replicate the pattern of results found by Gilbert, Basran, McArthur & Kirby (2019) such that, for the liked target, compassion scenarios will be associated with greater levels of threat emotions (anger, irritated/annoyed, sadness, anxiety and disgust) and meaningfulness, whereas kind scenarios will be associated with higher levels of joy. For the disliked target, we expect that the kindness scenarios will be associated with higher levels of threat emotions compared to the compassion scenarios. Furthermore, we expect no experience of joy towards helping a disliked other. Additionally, we expect that high levels of hedonic wellbeing, high fears of compassion and low moral expansiveness will negatively predict willingness to help disliked targets. Gilbert, P., Basran, J., MacArthur, M., & Kirby, J. N. (2019). Differences in the semantics of prosocial words: an exploration of compassion and kindness. Mindfulness, 10(11), 2259-2271.