Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

In academic and public life empathy is seen as a fundamental force of morality–a
psychological phenomenon, rooted in biology, with profound effects in law, policy, and …

The last decade has witnessed enormous growth in the neuroscience of empathy. Here, we
survey research in this domain with an eye toward evaluating its strengths and weaknesses …

In the past decade, a flurry of empirical and theoretical research on morality and empathy
has taken place, and interest and usage in the media and the public arena have increased …

Whilst recent neuroimaging studies have identified a series of different brain regions as
being involved in empathy, it remains unclear concerning the activation consistence of these …

The phenomenon of empathy entails the ability to share the affective experiences of others.
In recent years social neuroscience made considerable progress in revealing the …

Dehumanization is endemic in medical practice. This article discusses the psychology of
dehumanization resulting from inherent features of medical settings, the doctor–patient …

The pain matrix including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) mediates not only first person
pain experience but also empathy for others' pain. It remains unknown, however, whether …

We present a detailed framework for understanding the numerous and complicated
interactions among psychological and social determinants of pain through examination of …

In general, social neuroscience research tends to focus on visual and auditory channels as
routes for social information. However, because the skin is the site of events and processes …