Experiencing Physical Pain Leads to More Sympathetic Moral Judgments.

Previous studies have shown that observing another's pain can evoke other-oriented emotions, which instigate empathic concern for another's needs. It is not clear whether experiencing first-hand physical pain may also evoke other-oriented emotion and thus influence people's moral judg...

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Main Authors: Qianguo Xiao, Yi Zhu, Wen-Bo Luo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4605675?pdf=render