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Physical Cue Influences Children’s Empathy for Pain: The Role of Attention Allocation
Empathy for pain is evolutionally important and context-dependent. The current study explored the effect of physical cue on 4- to 5-year-old children’s empathy for pain with two experiments. Experiment 1 investigated the effect of valid and invalid physical cue as compared to baseline (without cue)...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6282501/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30555392 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02378 |
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author | Yan, Zhiqiang Pei, Meng Su, Yanjie |
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description | Empathy for pain is evolutionally important and context-dependent. The current study explored the effect of physical cue on 4- to 5-year-old children’s empathy for pain with two experiments. Experiment 1 investigated the effect of valid and invalid physical cue as compared to baseline (without cue) in pain evaluation task (evaluating the pain intensity of a facial expression, N = 28). Experiment 2 employed eye-tracking to investigate the attentional process in valid and baseline conditions (evaluating the pain intensity of a body image with an apparently injured arm or leg, N = 65). We found the evaluation of pain intensity was the highest in the valid condition, and higher in baseline condition than invalid. As for eye-tracking results, children fixated more quickly, had more fixations and longer total fixation duration in valid-cue condition. Of attention allocation, compared with baseline condition, children fixated on arm/leg more quickly, more frequently and for longer time in valid condition. Additionally, eye-tracking results were significantly related to their evaluation of pain intensity. |
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spelling | pubmed-62825012018-12-14 Physical Cue Influences Children’s Empathy for Pain: The Role of Attention Allocation Yan, Zhiqiang Pei, Meng Su, Yanjie Front Psychol Psychology Empathy for pain is evolutionally important and context-dependent. The current study explored the effect of physical cue on 4- to 5-year-old children’s empathy for pain with two experiments. Experiment 1 investigated the effect of valid and invalid physical cue as compared to baseline (without cue) in pain evaluation task (evaluating the pain intensity of a facial expression, N = 28). Experiment 2 employed eye-tracking to investigate the attentional process in valid and baseline conditions (evaluating the pain intensity of a body image with an apparently injured arm or leg, N = 65). We found the evaluation of pain intensity was the highest in the valid condition, and higher in baseline condition than invalid. As for eye-tracking results, children fixated more quickly, had more fixations and longer total fixation duration in valid-cue condition. Of attention allocation, compared with baseline condition, children fixated on arm/leg more quickly, more frequently and for longer time in valid condition. Additionally, eye-tracking results were significantly related to their evaluation of pain intensity. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6282501/ /pubmed/30555392 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02378 Text en Copyright © 2018 Yan, Pei and Su. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Yan, Zhiqiang Pei, Meng Su, Yanjie Physical Cue Influences Children’s Empathy for Pain: The Role of Attention Allocation |
title | Physical Cue Influences Children’s Empathy for Pain: The Role of Attention Allocation |
title_full | Physical Cue Influences Children’s Empathy for Pain: The Role of Attention Allocation |
title_fullStr | Physical Cue Influences Children’s Empathy for Pain: The Role of Attention Allocation |
title_full_unstemmed | Physical Cue Influences Children’s Empathy for Pain: The Role of Attention Allocation |
title_short | Physical Cue Influences Children’s Empathy for Pain: The Role of Attention Allocation |
title_sort | physical cue influences children’s empathy for pain: the role of attention allocation |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6282501/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30555392 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02378 |
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