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Empathic pain observation does not influence automatic imitation in an online setting

Abstract

Previous research has shown that empathic pain observation can lead to motor facilitation in the form of faster reaction times. However, it is unclear whether participants are focusing on the others’ pain or simply focusing on their own discomfort/distress (from watching the videos) during the task. This is an important issue as self- vs other-oriented focusing plays a key role in empathic processing. To address this issue, we combined empathic …

Authors

Galang CM; Obhi SS

Journal

Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 241, No. 1, pp. 263–276

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

January 2023

DOI

10.1007/s00221-022-06508-2

ISSN

0014-4819