Empathy for pain motivates actions without altruistic effects: evidence of motor dynamics and brain activity

Children of war: urgent action is needed to save a generation

(2016) Zulfiqar A Bhutta et al.   LANCET

The brains functional network architecture reveals human motives

(2016) G. Hein et al.   SCIENCE

Dissociated Neural Representations of Pain Expressions of Different Races

(2015) Feng Sheng et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Evidence from pupillometry and fMRI indicates reduced neural response during vicarious social pain but not physical pain in autism

(2015) Sören Krach 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

Oxytocin receptor gene and racial ingroup bias in empathy-related brain activity

(2015) Siyang Luo et al.   NEUROIMAGE

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

Embodied neural responses to others’ suffering

(2015) Xiaochun Han et al.   Cognitive Neuroscience

Anterior insular cortex and emotional awareness

(2013) Xiaosi Gu et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Where Pain Meets Action in the Human Brain

(2013) I. Perini et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Task modulations of racial bias in neural responses to others' suffering

(2013) Feng Sheng et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Reminders of mortality decrease midcingulate activity in response to others’ suffering

(2013) Siyang Luo et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Anterior insular cortex is necessary for empathetic pain perception

(2012) Xiaosi Gu et al.   BRAIN

Manipulations of cognitive strategies and intergroup relationships reduce the racial bias in empathic neural responses

(2012) Feng Sheng et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Hearing others’ pain: neural activity related to empathy

(2011) Simone Lang et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Neural responses to perceived pain in others predict real-life monetary donations in different socioeconomic contexts

(2011) Yina Ma et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Somatosensation in social perception

(2010) Christian Keysers et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Neural basis of extraordinary empathy and altruistic motivation

(2010) Vani A. Mathur et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Physicians down-regulate their pain empathy response: An event-related brain potential study

(2010) Jean Decety 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

Neural Responses to Ingroup and Outgroup Members' Suffering Predict Individual Differences in Costly Helping

(2010) Grit Hein et al.   NEURON

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

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

Empathic neural responses to others' pain are modulated by emotional contexts

(2009) Shihui Han et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Perspective taking modulates event-related potentials to perceived pain

(2009) Wei Li et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Gender difference in empathy for pain: An electrophysiological investigation

(2008) Shihui Han et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

The correlates of subjective perception of identity and expression in the face network: An fMRI adaptation study

(2008) C FOX et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Putting the Altruism Back into Altruism: The Evolution of Empathy

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

Temporal dynamic of neural mechanisms involved in empathy for pain: An event-related brain potential study

(2007) Yan Fan et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA