Mammalian empathy: behavioural manifestations and neural basis

Self-other resonance, its control and prosocial inclinations: Brain-behavior relationships

(2016) Leonardo Christov-Moore et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Large-Scale Meta-Analysis of Human Medial Frontal Cortex Reveals Tripartite Functional Organization

(2016) Alejandro de la Vega et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Pain in the ACC?

(2016) Tor D. Wager et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs

(2016) C. Krupenye et al.   SCIENCE

Oxytocin-dependent consolation behavior in rodents

(2016) J. P. Burkett et al.   SCIENCE

From painkiller to empathy killer: acetaminophen (paracetamol) reduces empathy for pain

(2016) Dominik Mischkowski et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

The Anatomy of Suffering: Understanding the Relationship between Nociceptive and Empathic Pain

(2016) Jamil Zaki et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex

(2016) Corrado Corradi-Dell’Acqua et al.   Nature Communications

Experimental evidence of contagious yawning in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)

(2015) Andrew C. Gallup et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Rats demonstrate helping behavior toward a soaked conspecific

(2015) Nobuya Sato et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

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

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

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

Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain

(2015) Markus Rütgen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rudimentary empathy in macaques’ social decision-making

(2015) Sebastien Ballesta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex is selective for pain: Results from large-scale reverse inference

(2015) Matthew D. Lieberman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exploring the evolutionary foundations of empathy: consolation in monkeys

(2014) Elisabetta Palagi et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts

(2014) Michael L. Wilson et al.   NATURE

Synchrony and motor mimicking in chimpanzee observational learning

(2014) Delia Fuhrmann et al.   Scientific Reports

Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) reassure others in distress

(2014) Joshua M. Plotnik et al.   PeerJ

The role of automaticity and attention in neural processes underlying empathy for happiness, sadness, and anxiety

(2013) Sylvia A. Morelli et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

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

(2013) Zanna Clay et al.   PLoS One

Familiarity Bias and Physiological Responses in Contagious Yawning by Dogs Support Link to Empathy

(2013) Teresa Romero et al.   PLoS One

Development of socio-emotional competence in bonobos

(2013) Z. Clay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The origins of altruism in offspring care.

(2013) Stephanie D. Preston   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Tinbergen's four questions: an appreciation and an update

(2013) Patrick Bateson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Rapid Facial Mimicry In Geladas

(2013) Giada Mancini et al.   Scientific Reports

Auditory contagious yawning in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris): first evidence for social modulation

(2012) Karine Silva et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Food-related tolerance in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) varies with knowledge of the partner’s previous food-consumption

(2012) Yuko Hattori et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Pro-sociality without empathy

(2012) M. Vasconcelos et al.   Biology Letters

Breaking the Social-Non-social Dichotomy: A Role for Reptiles in Vertebrate Social Behavior Research?

(2012) J. Sean Doody et al.   ETHOLOGY

The neuroscience of empathy: progress, pitfalls and promise

(2012) Jamil Zaki et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Chimpanzees' flexible targeted helping based on an understanding of conspecifics' goals

(2012) S. Yamamoto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How specific are emotional deficits? A comparison of empathic abilities in schizophrenia, bipolar and depressed patients

(2012) Birgit Derntl et al.   SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH

Emotional Empathy and Facial Reactions to Facial Expressions

(2011) Ulf Dimberg et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

The integration of negative affect, pain and cognitive control in the cingulate cortex

(2011) Alexander J. Shackman et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Ingroup-Outgroup Bias in Contagious Yawning by Chimpanzees Supports Link to Empathy

(2011) Matthew W. Campbell et al.   PLoS One

Yawn Contagion and Empathy in Homo sapiens

(2011) Ivan Norscia et al.   PLoS One

Avian maternal response to chick distress

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

Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats

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

The empathic, physiological resonance of stress

(2011) Tony W. Buchanan et al.   Social Neuroscience

Social Neuroscience: Mirror Neurons Recorded in Humans

(2010) Christian Keysers et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Single-Neuron Responses in Humans during Execution and Observation of Actions

(2010) Roy Mukamel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Canine Reconciliation and Third-Party-Initiated Postconflict Affiliation: Do Peacemaking Social Mechanisms in Dogs Rival Those of Higher Primates?

(2010) Annemieke K.A. Cools et al.   ETHOLOGY

Functional relations of empathy and mentalizing: An fMRI study on the neural basis of cognitive empathy

(2010) Knut Schnell 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

Is there a core neural network in empathy? An fMRI based quantitative meta-analysis

(2010) Yan Fan et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Consolation as possible expression of sympathetic concern among chimpanzees

(2010) T. Romero et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Social Neuroscience of Empathy

(2009) Tania Singer et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Can We Share a Pain We Never Felt? Neural Correlates of Empathy in Patients with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain

(2009) Nicolas Danziger et al.   NEURON

Empathy Is Moderated by Genetic Background in Mice

(2009) QiLiang Chen et al.   PLoS One

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

(2009) Elise Nowbahari et al.   PLoS One

In-Group Conformity Sustains Different Foraging Traditions in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella)

(2009) Marietta Dindo et al.   PLoS One

Capuchin Monkeys Display Affiliation Toward Humans Who Imitate Them

(2009) A. Paukner et al.   SCIENCE

Social approach to pain in laboratory mice

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

Imitation, Empathy, and Mirror Neurons

(2008) Marco Iacoboni   Annual Review of Psychology

Two systems for empathy: a double dissociation between emotional and cognitive empathy in inferior frontal gyrus versus ventromedial prefrontal lesions

(2008) Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory et al.   BRAIN

Is emotional contagion special? An fMRI study on neural systems for affective and cognitive empathy

(2008) Lauri Nummenmaa et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Stress reduction through consolation in chimpanzees

(2008) O. N. Fraser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Observational learning in chimpanzees and children studied through 'ghost' conditions

(2008) L. M Hopper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and the Neurogenetics of Sociality

(2008) Z. R. Donaldson et al.   SCIENCE

Putting the Altruism Back into Altruism: The Evolution of Empathy

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

Rapid facial mimicry in orangutan play

(2007) M. Davila Ross et al.   Biology Letters

Fine Cuts of Empathy and the Amygdala: Dissociable Deficits in Psychopathy and Autism

(2007) R. J. R. Blair   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY