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 …

Highlights•Empathy has evolved in the context of parental care and kinship relationships.•
Conserved neural circuits connecting brainstem, basal ganglia, insula and orbitofrontal …

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 …

Empathy shapes the landscape of our social lives. It motivates prosocial and caregiving
behaviors, plays a role in inhibiting aggression, and facilitates cooperation between …

Racial discrimination in social behavior, although disapproved of by many contemporary
cultures, has been widely reported. Because empathy plays a key functional role in social …

Pain empathy can be evoked by multiple cues, particularly observation of acute pain
inflictions or facial expressions of pain. Previous studies suggest that these cues commonly …

This study provides the first physiological evidence of humans' ability to empathize with
robot pain and highlights the difference in empathy for humans and robots. We performed …

The debate regarding whether women are more empathetic than men has broad scientific,
social and clinical implications. However, previous independent questionnaires and brain …

The present study examined the neural processes related to different forms of prosocial
behavior in infancy by means of a longitudinal study. At 14months, infants' resting state brain …