How We Know It Hurts: Item Analysis of Written Narratives Reveals Distinct Neural Responses to Others' Physical Pain and Emotional Suffering

People are often called upon to witness, and to empathize with, the pain and suffering of others. In the current study, we directly compared neural responses to others' physical pain and emotional suffering by presenting participants (n = 41) with 96 verbal stories, each describing a protagonis...

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Main Authors: Bruneau, Emile Gabriel, Dufour, Nicholas Paul, Saxe, Rebecca R.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79415
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2377-1791