When people witness or imagine the pain of another person, their nervous system may react
as if they were feeling that pain themselves. Early neuroscientific evidence indicates that the …

Pain is a salient, aversive sensation which motivates avoidance, but also has a strong social
signaling function. Numerous studies have shown that regions of the nervous system active …

Recent advances in social neuroscience research have unveiled the neurophysiological
correlates of race and intergroup processing. However, little is known about the neural …

The nature of interactions between observing pain in others (other-pain) and subjective pain
perception (self-pain) has been debated. To test whether other-pain and self-pain primes …

Studies have explored behavioral and neural responses to the observation of pain in others.
However, much less is known about how taking a physical perspective influences reactivity …

People evaluate members of their own social group more favorably and empathize more
strongly with their ingroup members. Using electroencephalography (EEG), we explored …

The aim of this study was to identify racial bias influences on empathic processing from early
stimulus encoding, over categorization until late motor processing stages by comparing …

In the present study we investigated the nature and chronometry of empathy for pain
influences on perceptual and motor processes. Thus, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) …

Background Empathy for pain helps us to understand the pain of others indirectly. To better
comprehend the processing of empathic pain, we report the frequency-dependent …

Explicit negative attitudes and blameful beliefs (eg poor diet, laziness) towards obese
individuals are well documented and are pervasive even among health professionals. Here …