Empathy—the ability to share the feelings of others—is fundamental to our emotional and
social lives. Previous human imaging studies focusing on empathy for others' pain have …

In the last decade, the phenomenon of empathy has received widespread attention by the
field of social neuroscience. This has provided fresh insights for theoretical models of …

Altruistic behavior varies considerably across people and decision contexts. The relevant
computational and motivational mechanisms that underlie its heterogeneity, however, are …

Empathy is a multi-faceted construct with important implications for social behavior. Based
on a selective review of the neuroscientific evidence collected in humans, the present paper …

Humans have the capacity to share others' emotions, be they positive or negative. Elicited by
the observed or imagined emotion of another person, an observer develops a similar …

Current theories suggest that physical pain and social rejection share common neural
mechanisms, largely by virtue of overlapping functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) …

Understanding how humans represent others' pain is critical for understanding pro-social
behavior.'Shared experience'theories propose common brain representations for somatic …

Neuroscientific research has identified two fundamental components of empathy: shared
emotional representations between self and other, and self–other distinction. The concept of …

Pain features centrally in numerous illnesses and generates enormous public health costs.
Despite its ubiquity, the psychological and neurophysiological nature of pain remains …

Empathy relies on brain systems that support the interaction between an observer's mental
state and cues about the others' experience. Beyond the core brain areas typically activated …