Executive summary Every infant, child, and adolescent will experience pain at times
throughout their life. Childhood pain ranges from acute to chronic, and includes procedural …

Abstract Objective and Method: Research on emotion and pain has burgeoned. We review
the last decade's literature, focusing on links between emotional processes and persistent …

British Psychology Society Textbook of the Year 2020 Why do people who are more socially
connected live longer and have better health than those who are socially isolated? Why are …

Whilst recent neuroimaging studies have identified a series of different brain regions as
being involved in empathy, it remains unclear concerning the activation consistence of these …

Highlights•Socio-affective and socio-cognitive processes are separable; behaviorally and
neurally.•The related neural networks co-activate and interact in complex social …

The concept of empathy has received a lot of attention in the past few decades in public
media, academia, national and international politics, arts, ethics, health professions …

We present a detailed framework for understanding the numerous and complicated
interactions among psychological and social determinants of pain through examination of …

Watching or imagining other people experiencing pain activates the central nervous
system's pain matrix in the observer. Without emotion regulation skills, repeated exposure to …

Chronic pain is highly prevalent in the ageing population. Individuals with neurological
disorders such as dementia are susceptible patient groups in which pain is frequently under …

Chronic nonmalignant pain makes individuals prone to stigmatizing reactions of others.
Stigmatizing responses are devaluing and discrediting responses of observers toward …