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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Wen-Yi Wu, Yawei Cheng, Keng- Chen Liang, Ray X. Lee, Chen -Tung Yen
Summary: Although the neuronal substrate underlying empathy-associated prosocial action is not well understood, our study in rats reveals the involvement of neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and insular cortex (InC) in empathic behaviors. We identified neurons with anti-mirror properties in addition to mirror properties in both ACC and InC. ACC neurons showed higher coupling between self-in-pain and others-in-pain, while InC had a higher ratio of anti-mirror neurons. During observed pain in others, ACC neurons were more activated during active nose-poking, while InC neurons were more activated during freezing. Furthermore, both ACC and InC neurons specifically responded to rat rescuing in the helping behavior test, which was contributed by mirror neurons rather than anti-mirror neurons. Our findings demonstrate the functional involvement of the mirror neuron system in prosocial behaviors.
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Behavioral Sciences
Katharina Wenig, Palmyre H. Boucherie, Thomas Bugnyar
Summary: Emotional contagion describes the alignment of emotional states between individuals, with young ravens showing evidence of emotional contagion in the context of play but not copying motor patterns.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Parvaneh Yaghoubi Jami, David Ian Walker, Stephen J. Thoma
Summary: This study explored the relationship between college students' experience with psychological pain and their level of empathy when observing strangers experiencing physical and psychological pain. The results showed similar empathic reactions towards both types of pain. However, participants' feelings after observing pain were influenced by their prior similar painful experiences.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Vladimir Kosonogov, Olga Kuskova
Summary: The aim of this study was to develop and test the Russian version of the Emotional Contagion Scale. Through questionnaire surveys and data analysis, the study examined various dimensions and properties of the scale. The one-factor model of the scale showed the best acceptability, and women were found to be more emotionally contagious.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
J. Comes-Fayos, M. C. Blanco-Gandia, I. R. Moreno, M. Rodriguez-Arias, M. Lila, C. Sarrate-Costa, A. Romero-Martinez, L. Moya-Albiol
Summary: The study found that IPV perpetrators had lower sOXT levels after an empathic induction task, with alexithymia and emotional response potentially explaining this change. Additionally, prosocial behavior was more associated with these sOXT levels than with IPV itself.
PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Julen Hernandez-Lallement, Paula Gomez-Sotres, Maria Carrillo
Summary: This study leverages 80 years of emotional contagion research in rodents and performs the first meta-analysis on this topic. The results show that rats and mice are both capable of emotional contagion, but there are differences in how various factors modulate empathy in these species. For example, rats are more sensitive to the length of familiarity and prior experience with emotional stimuli increases fear contagion response. Additionally, missing one sensory modality reduces emotional contagion in animals from both species.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2022)
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Psychology, Social
Leticia Micheli, Christina Breil, Anne Boeckler
Summary: This study investigated the impact of listeners' gaze direction and the emotional context of the story on perceptions of their social cognition skills and prosocial decisions towards them. The results showed that listeners perceived as empathic and taking perspective were treated with more trust and generosity, indicating that social signals and contextual cues can promote indirect reciprocity and social contagion of generosity.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Irene Lecker, Xxx Yini, Hantao Zhang, Robert P. Bonin
Summary: Establishment and maintenance of strong affiliative relationships are crucial for group cohesion and individual well-being. Empathy is considered critical for promoting attachment and social bond stability. The role of physical contact in the development of empathy is not well understood, but evidence suggests touch is crucial for social bonding.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Guillaume P. Pech, Emilie A. Caspar
Summary: According to the embodied cognition framework, clothing has an impact on cognitive and psychological processes. Wearing a Red Cross uniform increases prosocial behavior and enhances neural response to pain, while wearing a military uniform increases the sense of agency.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Ye Zhang, Jiaqi Yu, Yu Zhang, Yaqian Zhang, Fang Sun, Yuhan Yao, Ziyu Bai, Hanqing Sun, Qian Zhao, Xiang Li
Summary: This study found that pigs were able to respond appropriately to fear and provide similar social support to their companions who were treated negatively, regardless of whether or not they directly observed the negative treatment.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Anat Shoshani, Shahar Braverman, Galya Meirow
Summary: The study found that prosocial and interpersonal video game play were associated with higher social satisfaction, peer support, and prosocial behavior, leading to increased well-being. On the other hand, violent video game play was linked to increased school bullying, lower social satisfaction, and reduced prosocial behavior. Secure attachment styles were related to higher levels of empathy and prosocial and interpersonal interactions in video game use, while children with attachment anxiety or avoidance participated in significantly less prosocial video game behavior.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Irina B. Fedotova, Natalia M. Surina, Georgy M. Nikolaev, Alexandre V. Revishchin, Inga I. Poletaeva
Summary: The review discusses the internal relationship between stages of rodent audiogenic seizures and post-ictal catalepsy, highlighting a potential platform for studying epileptogenesis mechanisms. It suggests that the wild run stage of audiogenic seizure could be seen as an intense panic reaction, supported by experimental data. This phenomenon is of interest to physiologists due to rodents' sensitivity to dangerous sound stimuli.
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xiao Wu, Xuejing Lu
Summary: Intensive musical training has a significant impact on empathy development, but the neural basis of how musical training affects the empathic brain is not yet clear and requires further investigation.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Helena Hartmann, Magdalena Banwinkler, Federica Riva, Claus Lamm
Summary: This study investigated potential psychological and structural brain differences between placebo responders and non-responders in the domain of pain. The results showed significant group differences in trait characteristics, with responders reporting increased helping behavior and lower psychopathic traits compared to non-responders. Uncorrected results also showed higher pain-related empathic concern in responders. These results suggest that modifiability of one's pain perception by placebo effects is linked to personality traits characterizing social emotions and behavior.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
YaLing Pang, Chao Song, Chao Ma
Summary: With the development of positive psychology, researchers have paid widespread attention to prosocial behavior. This current study examines the mediating effects of gratitude on the relationship between different types of empathy and college students' prosocial behavior, finding that gratitude plays a significant role in this relationship.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Loren J. Martin, Erinn L. Acland, Chulmin Cho, Wiebke Gandhi, Di Chen, Elizabeth Corley, Basil Kadoura, Tess Levy, Sara Mirali, Sarasa Tohyama, Sana Khan, Leigh C. MacIntyre, Erika N. Carlson, Petra Schweinhardt, Jeffrey S. Mogil
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Anesthesiology
Shannon N. Tansley, Leigh C. Macintyre, Laura Diamond, Susana G. Sotocinal, Nicole George, Lee Meluban, Jean-Sebastien Austin, Terence J. Coderre, Loren J. Martin, Jeffrey S. Mogil
Article
Anesthesiology
Marc Parisien, Alexander Samoshkin, Shannon N. Tansley, Marjo H. Piltonen, Loren J. Martin, Nehme El-Hachem, Concetta Dagostino, Massimo Allegri, Jeffrey S. Mogil, Arkady Khoutorsky, Luda Diatchenko
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Chulmin Cho, Vassilia Michalidis, Irene Lecker, Chereen Collymore, David Hanwell, Mary Loka, Matthew Danesh, Christine Pham, Paige Urban, Robert P. Bonin, Loren J. Martin
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2019)
Article
Developmental Biology
Erinn L. Acland, Tyler Colasante, Tina Malti
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY
(2019)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Susanne Becker, Anne-Kathrin Braescher, Scott Bannister, Moustafa Bensafi, Destany Calma-Birling, Raymond C. K. Chan, Tuomas Eerola, Dan-Mikael Ellingsen, Camille Ferdenzi, Jamie L. Hanson, Mateus Joffily, Navdeep K. Lidhar, Leroy J. Lowe, Loren J. Martin, Erica D. Musser, Michael Noll-Hussong, Thomas M. Olino, Rosario Pintos Lobo, Yi Wang
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2019)
Correction
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Chulmin Cho, Vassilia Michailidis, Irene Lecker, Chereen Collymore, David Hanwell, Mary Loka, Matthew Danesh, Christine Pham, Paige Urban, Robert P. Bonin, Loren J. Martin
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2019)
Article
Neurosciences
Soroush Darvish-Ghane, Clementine Quintana, Jean-Martin Beaulieu, Loren J. Martin
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Erinn L. Acland, Marc Jambon, Tina Malti
Summary: Difficulty recognizing negative emotions in children is linked to increased antisocial traits and externalizing problems, particularly in relation to aggressive behavior. Age and gender do not moderate this relationship, and both insensitivity and misspecifications of negative emotions play a crucial role in children's overt aggression.
AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Loren J. Martin, Sandra J. Poulson, Emma Mannan, Sivaani Sivaselvachandran, Moonjeong Cho, Fatima Setak, Claire Chan
Summary: Our findings suggest that depending on the sensory stimuli, pain responses in BTBR and Fmr1-KO mice may vary, with BTBR mice showing mixed nociceptive responses and Fmr1-KO mice displaying hyposensitivity to certain stimuli. Furthermore, neither BTBR nor Fmr1-KO mice exhibited emotional contagion of pain in social settings, indicating potential differences in empathy development in these ASD mouse models.
GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Criminology & Penology
Erinn L. Acland, Caitlin Cavanagh
Summary: This study examines the association between anger and its features (fuse and duration) with youths' patterns of violence and offending. Findings suggest that short anger fuse is associated with current violence, while prolonged anger is only related to violence in mid- to late-adolescence. Youth who report short fuse are more likely to engage in nonviolent recidivism if they had exclusively nonviolent prior(s), whereas those with violent prior(s) are more likely to reoffend if they report prolonged anger.
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Marc Jambon, Tyler Colasante, Danielle Mitrevski, Erinn Acland, Tina Malti
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between guilt and callous-unemotional (CU) traits in children. The results showed that higher levels of ethical guilt were related to lower CU scores concurrently and after three years, while higher levels of non-ethical guilt were related to higher CU scores at baseline (for older children) and after three years (for all children). Undifferentiated guilt was not associated with CU after controlling for demographic variables.
RESEARCH ON CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Tyler Colasante, Emma Galarneau, Ruth Speidel, Anjali Suri, Erinn Acland, Marc Jambon, Brendan F. Andrade, Tina Malti
Summary: This study examined the mechanisms underlying the association between lower autonomic arousal and externalizing behavior in childhood. The findings suggest that lower autonomic arousal makes it difficult for children to anticipate or express ethical guilt, leading to an increased likelihood of engaging in externalizing behavior. These findings have important theoretical and practical implications for interventions targeting clinically elevated externalizing behavior.
RESEARCH ON CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Soroush Darvish-Ghane, Jennet Baumbach, Loren J. Martin
Summary: Dopamine inhibits excitatory synaptic transmission in the ACC, but the modulation of inhibitory synaptic transmission and the E/I balance has been understudied. This study used patch-clamp recordings and found that DA did not significantly impact eEPSCs in the ACC. However, individual neurons showed varied responses to DA. The study suggests that CFA-induced inflammation and DA do not significantly affect the excitatory/inhibitory balance in ACC neurons. Evaluation: 6/10
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Edna C. Cieslik, Markus Ullsperger, Martin Gell, Simon B. Eickhoff, Robert Langner
Summary: Previous studies on error processing have primarily focused on the posterior medial frontal cortex, but the role of other brain regions has been underestimated. This study used activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses to explore brain activity related to committing errors and responding successfully in interference tasks. It was found that the salience network and the temporoparietal junction were commonly involved in both correct and incorrect responses, indicating their general involvement in coping with situations that require increased cognitive control. Error-specific convergence was observed in the dorsal posterior cingulate cortex, posterior thalamus, and left superior frontal gyrus, while successful responding showed stronger convergence in the dorsal attention network and lateral prefrontal regions. Underrecruitment of these regions in error trials may reflect failures in activating the appropriate stimulus-response contingencies necessary for successful response execution.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2024)
