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

Empathy has been supposed to be a proximate mechanism of altruistic behavior. We investigated whether empathy for pain drives actions without altruistic effects and how such actions modulate neural responses to others’ pain. In two experiments, we asked healthy adults to press a button for no reason...

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Autores principales: Han, Xiaochun, He, Kang, Wu, Bing, Shi, Zhenhao, Liu, Yi, Luo, Siyang, Wei, Kunlin, Wu, Xinhuai, Han, Shihui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Original Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28338790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx016

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28338790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx016

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