Whether or not testosterone can impair empathy remains unclear in the literature. Given that
empathic responses to others' emotional experiences depend strongly upon top–down …

There is evidence of testosterone having deteriorating effects on cognitive and affective
empathic behaviour in men and women under varying conditions. However, whether …

Although there is evidence that testosterone has deteriorating effects on cognitive and
affective empathy, whether testosterone administration influences both routes to …

The influence of testosterone on pain perception remains inconsistent in the literature. This
randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, crossover study investigated the effect of …

Our recent event-related brain potential (ERP) study disentangled the neural mechanisms of
empathy for pain into an early automatic emotional sharing component and a late controlled …

Previous research in social neuroscience has consistently shown that empathy for pain
recruits brain areas that are also activated during the first-hand experience of pain. This has …

Simulation theories of empathy hypothesize that empathizing with others' pain shares some
common psychological computations with the processing of one's own pain. Support for this …

Empathy is a fundamental attribute required for appropriate social functioning. The extent to
which we empathize with others in pain is influenced by numerous factors. Being highly …

Observing other in pain triggers the empathic responses, which involve two stages of
processing temporally: an early, automatic processing that result in emotional contagion and …

Human empathy is not merely a resonance with others' physical condition, but is modulated
by social factors. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the present study …