Empathy gap – what do we know about empathizing with others′ pain?

Dopierała, Aleksandra; Jankowiak-Siuda, Kamila; Boski, Paweł

doi:10.1515/ppb-2017-0014

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“…In the shared condition, pain increased the perceived bonding by promoting empathy, which is consistent with previous literature (Lamm, Batson, & Decety, 2007). Witnessing others’ pain can trigger empathic responses (Abu-Akel, Palgi, Klein, Decety, & Shamey-Tsoory, 2015; Dopierała, Siuda, & Boski, 2017). Studies have also shown that even though there are qualitative differences between experiencing pain firsthand and observing others’ pain, there is an overlap in the neurological mechanisms of the two processes to some extent (Lamm et al, 2007).…”

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Pain and sharing: A re-examination of the findings of Bastian, Jetten, and Ferris (2014)

Sun

Yao

et al. 2020

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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Bastian, Jetten, and Ferris (2014) reported that shared pain enhances people’s bonding and cooperative behavior, but that shared no-pain has no such effect. They concluded that shared pain is a type of social glue that can improve people’s cooperation. However, in real life, both painful and painless experiences are often nonshared. Logically, the most direct way to determine whether sharing is the important element or not is to compare shared conditions with nonshared conditions. We conducted two experiments to investigate the relative effects of pain and sharing on enhancing people’s bonding and cooperative behavior by adding conditions of unshared pain and unshared no-pain. In experiment 1, we replicated Bastian, Jetten, and Ferris’s (2014) findings, and found that the effect of pain on bonding was mediated by empathy. In experiment 2, we used a 2 (pain/no-pain) × 2 (shared/unshared) design and found that while shared pain still induced more cooperative behavior than shared no-pain, unshared pain did not induce more cooperative behavior than unshared no-pain. Moreover, we found that empathy significantly mediated the relationship between pain and bonding when participants shared the experience. These results suggest that sharing is a necessary component for pain to act as social glue.

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Pain and sharing: A re-examination of the findings of Bastian, Jetten, and Ferris (2014)

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Yao

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Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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“…, 2013 ). Intriguingly, the simulation of others’ pain the network produces is not equal in all circumstances but varies as a function of social factors such as perceived similarity between oneself and the victim ( Dopierała et al. , 2017 ; Han, 2018 ).…”

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Increasing self–other similarity modulates ethnic bias in sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain

Harjunen

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Ahmed

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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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The tendency to simulate the pain of others within our own sensorimotor systems is a vital component of empathy. However, this sensorimotor resonance is modulated by a multitude of social factors including similarity in bodily appearance, e.g. skin colour. The current study investigated whether increasing self–other similarity via virtual transfer to another colour body reduced ingroup bias in sensorimotor resonance. A sample of 58 white participants was momentarily transferred to either a black or a white body using virtual reality technology. We then employed electroencephalography to examine event-related desynchronization (ERD) in the sensorimotor beta (13–23 Hz) oscillations while they viewed black, white and violet photorealistic virtual agents being touched with a noxious or soft object. While the noxious treatment of a violet agent did not increase beta ERD, amplified beta ERD in response to black agent’s noxious vs soft treatment was found in perceivers transferred to a black body. Transfer to the white body dismissed the effect. Further exploratory analysis implied that the pain-related beta ERD occurred only when the agent and the participant were of the same colour. The results suggest that even short-lasting changes in bodily resemblance can modulate sensorimotor resonance to others’ perceived pain.

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Sounding and Signifyin’: Representation and the Theatrical Black Voice

Mohammed¹

2020

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Empathy gap – what do we know about empathizing with others′ pain?

Abstract: Empathy of pain as a multi-dimensional process includes

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Pain and sharing: A re-examination of the findings of Bastian, Jetten, and Ferris (2014)

Pain and sharing: A re-examination of the findings of Bastian, Jetten, and Ferris (2014)

Increasing self–other similarity modulates ethnic bias in sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain

Sounding and Signifyin’: Representation and the Theatrical Black Voice

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