Empathy as a driver of prosocial behaviour: highly conserved neurobehavioural mechanisms across species

Rats demonstrate helping behavior toward a soaked conspecific

(2015) Nobuya Sato et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Oxytocin, testosterone, and human social cognition

(2015) Bernard J. Crespi   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Racial bias in neural response to others' pain is reduced with other-race contact

(2015) Yuan Cao et al.   CORTEX

Prosocial Choice in Rats Depends on Food-Seeking Behavior Displayed by Recipients

(2015) Cristina Márquez et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Neuroscience of Implicit Moral Evaluation and Its Relation to Generosity in Early Childhood

(2015) Jason M. Cowell et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Reducing Social Stress Elicits Emotional Contagion of Pain in Mouse and Human Strangers

(2015) Loren J. Martin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Oxytocin receptor and vasopressin receptor 1a genes are respectively associated with emotional and cognitive empathy

(2015) F. Uzefovsky et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Interpersonal traits of psychopathy linked to reduced integrity of the uncinate fasciculus

(2015) Richard C. Wolf et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Reduction of Empathy for Pain by Placebo Analgesia Suggests Functional Equivalence of Empathy and First-Hand Emotion Experience

(2015) M. Rutgen et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Empathic concern drives costly altruism

(2015) Oriel FeldmanHall et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Rats prefer mutual rewards in a prosocial choice task

(2015) Julen Hernandez-Lallement et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Association between the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene and children's social cognition at 18 months

(2014) M. Wade et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

Amygdala subnuclei connectivity in response to violence reveals unique influences of individual differences in psychopathic traits in a nonforensic sample

(2014) Keith J. Yoder et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

The neurobiology of rewards and values in social decision making

(2014) Christian C. Ruff et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Intergroup relationships do not reduce racial bias in empathic neural responses to pain

(2014) Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Hypothalamic oxytocin and vasopressin neurons exert sex-specific effects on pair bonding, gregariousness, and aggression in finches

(2014) A. M. Kelly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neural control of maternal and paternal behaviors

(2014) C. Dulac et al.   SCIENCE

The complex relation between morality and empathy

(2014) Jean Decety et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

An EEG/ERP investigation of the development of empathy in early and middle childhood

(2014) Yawei Cheng et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Pro-social behavior in rats is modulated by social experience

(2014) Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal et al.   eLife

Desire for social contact, not empathy, may explain “rescue” behavior in rats

(2013) Alan Silberberg et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Empathy and contextual social cognition

(2013) Margherita Melloni et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Association of Callous Traits with Reduced Neural Response to Others’ Pain in Children with Conduct Problems

(2013) Patricia L. Lockwood et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An fMRI study of affective perspective taking in individuals with psychopathy: imagining another in pain does not evoke empathy

(2013) Jean Decety et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Empathic responsiveness in amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex in youths with psychopathic traits

(2013) Abigail A. Marsh et al.   JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

Social reward requires coordinated activity of nucleus accumbens oxytocin and serotonin

(2013) Gül Dölen et al.   NATURE

Bonobos Respond to Distress in Others: Consolation across the Age Spectrum

(2013) Zanna Clay et al.   PLoS One

Rudimentary Sympathy in Preverbal Infants: Preference for Others in Distress

(2013) Yasuhiro Kanakogi et al.   PLoS One

Giving peace a chance: Oxytocin increases empathy to pain in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

(2013) Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Understanding the human parental brain: A critical role of the orbitofrontal cortex

(2013) Christine E. Parsons et al.   Social Neuroscience

Oxytocin receptor gene variation predicts empathic concern and autonomic arousal while perceiving harm to others

(2013) Karen E. Smith et al.   Social Neuroscience

Life in groups: the roles of oxytocin in mammalian sociality

(2013) Allison M. J. Anacker et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Brain Response to Empathy-Eliciting Scenarios Involving Pain in Incarcerated Individuals With Psychopathy

(2013) Jean Decety et al.   JAMA Psychiatry

Prosocial behaviour in animals: the influence of social relationships, communication and rewards

(2012) Katherine A. Cronin   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Origins of Human Cooperation and Morality

(2012) Michael Tomasello et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

Pro-sociality without empathy

(2012) M. Vasconcelos et al.   Biology Letters

Early concern and disregard for others as predictors of antisocial behavior

(2012) Soo Hyun Rhee et al.   JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

Amygdala Sensitivity to Race Is Not Present in Childhood but Emerges over Adolescence

(2012) Eva H. Telzer et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Oxytocin-like receptors mediate pair bonding in a socially monogamous songbird

(2012) J. D. Klatt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Propranolol reduces implicit negative racial bias

(2012) Sylvia Terbeck et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The neuroevolution of empathy

(2011) Jean Decety   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

The Contribution of Emotion and Cognition to Moral Sensitivity: A Neurodevelopmental Study

(2011) Jean Decety et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Infant Pupil Diameter Changes in Response to Others' Positive and Negative Emotions

(2011) Elena Geangu et al.   PLoS One

Avian maternal response to chick distress

(2011) J. L. Edgar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neurohypophyseal hormones manipulation modulate social and anxiety-related behavior in zebrafish

(2011) Daniela Braida et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats

(2011) I. B.-A. Bartal et al.   SCIENCE

The psychopath magnetized: insights from brain imaging

(2011) Nathaniel E. Anderson et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Fear conditioning by-proxy: Social transmission of fear during memory retrieval

(2010) Aleksandra K. Bruchey et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Observational fear learning involves affective pain system and Cav1.2 Ca2+ channels in ACC

(2010) Daejong Jeon et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Love hurts: An fMRI study

(2010) Yawei Cheng et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain

(2010) Claus Lamm et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Do Ravens Show Consolation? Responses to Distressed Others

(2010) Orlaith N. Fraser et al.   PLoS One

Social Interaction Prevents the Development of Depressive-Like Behavior Post Nerve Injury in Mice: A Potential Role for Oxytocin

(2010) Greg J. Norman et al.   PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE

The Neuropeptide Oxytocin Regulates Parochial Altruism in Intergroup Conflict Among Humans

(2010) C. K. W. De Dreu et al.   SCIENCE

The Blame Game: The Effect of Responsibility and Social Stigma on Empathy for Pain

(2009) Jean Decety et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Do You Feel My Pain? Racial Group Membership Modulates Empathic Neural Responses

(2009) X. Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Social modulation of learning in rats

(2009) E. Knapska et al.   LEARNING & MEMORY

The Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) Contributes to Prosocial Fund Allocations in the Dictator Game and the Social Value Orientations Task

(2009) Salomon Israel et al.   PLoS One

Ants, Cataglyphis cursor, Use Precisely Directed Rescue Behavior to Free Entrapped Relatives

(2009) Elise Nowbahari et al.   PLoS One

Oxytocin receptor genetic variation relates to empathy and stress reactivity in humans

(2009) Sarina M. Rodrigues et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social approach to pain in laboratory mice

(2009) Dale J. Langford et al.   Social Neuroscience

The prairie vole: an emerging model organism for understanding the social brain

(2009) Lisa A. McGraw et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Heart rate modulation in bystanding geese watching social and non-social events

(2008) C. A.F Wascher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Psychopathy as a Clinical and Empirical Construct

(2007) Robert D. Hare et al.   Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Putting the Altruism Back into Altruism: The Evolution of Empathy

(2007) Frans B.M. de Waal   Annual Review of Psychology