Empathy is a multi-dimensional concept allowing humans to understand the emotions of
others and respond adaptively from a social perspective. This mental process, essential to …

Accounts of shared representations posit that the experience of pain and pain empathy rely
on similar neural mechanisms. Experimental research employing novel analytical and …

Empathy is a multifaceted emotional and mental faculty that is often found to be affected in a
great number of psychopathologies, such as schizophrenia, yet it remains very difficult to …

While self-pain motivates protective behaviors and self-oriented feelings, the perception of
others' pain often motivates concern and prosocial behaviors toward the person suffering …

Pain communication is thought to promote automatic vicarious self‐protective responses as
well as empathic concern towards others' suffering. This duality was recently highlighted in a …

Researchers have been increasingly investigating observer and patient characteristics that
may influence the assessment of pain in others. While rates of psychiatric conditions are …

Empathy, a core process for social interactions, is the capacity to understand and share
others' mental states and emotions. Each individual is thought to have a maximum level of …

Pain typically is measured by patient self-report, but self-reported pain is difficult to interpret
and may be impaired or in some circumstances not possible to obtain. Automatic, objective …

Aim To determine if differences exist between paediatric intensive care nurses and allied
health professionals in empathy, secondary trauma, burnout, pain exposure and pain ratings …

Abundant evidence has demonstrated a relationship between adult attachment and the
experience of one's own pain. However, few studies have investigated the associations …