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The Effect of Empathy on the Attentional Processing of Painful and Emotional Stimuli
BACKGROUND: Empathy is shown to affect the attentional processing of painful stimuli and emotional stimuli. However, whether the attentional effects on emotional stimuli depend on emotional valence and the nature of the relationship between the attentional effects on different stimuli are still unkn...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8364384/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34408507 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S318657 |
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author | Bi, Taiyong Xie, Qinhong Gao, Jianhui Zhang, Tao Kou, Hui |
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description | BACKGROUND: Empathy is shown to affect the attentional processing of painful stimuli and emotional stimuli. However, whether the attentional effects on emotional stimuli depend on emotional valence and the nature of the relationship between the attentional effects on different stimuli are still unknown. METHODS: In the present study, 25 high-empathy (HE) participants and 25 low-empathy (LE) participants were recruited to perform dot-probe tasks on painful stimuli and emotional stimuli. RESULTS: The results showed that HE individuals had weak attentional disengagement to painful pictures. More importantly, regarding emotional pictures, HE individuals showed attentional avoidance to negative emotion pictures, while LE individuals showed attentional bias to positive emotion pictures. Correlation analysis showed that the attentional bias score and attentional disengagement score were only associated with each other within the same category of stimuli (painful, positive or negative stimuli). CONCLUSION: These results revealed that HE individuals mainly showed attentional avoidance to negative stimuli, while LE individuals mainly showed attentional bias to positive stimuli. |
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spelling | pubmed-83643842021-08-17 The Effect of Empathy on the Attentional Processing of Painful and Emotional Stimuli Bi, Taiyong Xie, Qinhong Gao, Jianhui Zhang, Tao Kou, Hui Psychol Res Behav Manag Original Research BACKGROUND: Empathy is shown to affect the attentional processing of painful stimuli and emotional stimuli. However, whether the attentional effects on emotional stimuli depend on emotional valence and the nature of the relationship between the attentional effects on different stimuli are still unknown. METHODS: In the present study, 25 high-empathy (HE) participants and 25 low-empathy (LE) participants were recruited to perform dot-probe tasks on painful stimuli and emotional stimuli. RESULTS: The results showed that HE individuals had weak attentional disengagement to painful pictures. More importantly, regarding emotional pictures, HE individuals showed attentional avoidance to negative emotion pictures, while LE individuals showed attentional bias to positive emotion pictures. Correlation analysis showed that the attentional bias score and attentional disengagement score were only associated with each other within the same category of stimuli (painful, positive or negative stimuli). CONCLUSION: These results revealed that HE individuals mainly showed attentional avoidance to negative stimuli, while LE individuals mainly showed attentional bias to positive stimuli. Dove 2021-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8364384/ /pubmed/34408507 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S318657 Text en © 2021 Bi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Bi, Taiyong Xie, Qinhong Gao, Jianhui Zhang, Tao Kou, Hui The Effect of Empathy on the Attentional Processing of Painful and Emotional Stimuli |
title | The Effect of Empathy on the Attentional Processing of Painful and Emotional Stimuli |
title_full | The Effect of Empathy on the Attentional Processing of Painful and Emotional Stimuli |
title_fullStr | The Effect of Empathy on the Attentional Processing of Painful and Emotional Stimuli |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Empathy on the Attentional Processing of Painful and Emotional Stimuli |
title_short | The Effect of Empathy on the Attentional Processing of Painful and Emotional Stimuli |
title_sort | effect of empathy on the attentional processing of painful and emotional stimuli |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8364384/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34408507 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S318657 |
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