Placebo effects, positive treatment outcomes that go beyond treatment processes, can alter
sensations through learning mechanisms. Understanding how methodological factors …

Affect-sharing, the ability to vicariously feel another person's emotions, is the primary
component of empathy that is typically thought to rely on the observer's capacity to feel the …

Influential accounts claim that violent video games (VVGs) decrease players' emotional
empathy by desensitizing them to both virtual and real-life violence. However, scientific …

Painkiller administration lowers pain empathy, but whether this also reduces prosocial
behavior is unknown. In this preregistered study, we investigated whether inducing …

Accounts of shared representations posit that the experience of pain and pain empathy rely
on similar neural mechanisms. Experimental research employing novel analytical and …

Alterations of empathy for others' pain among patients with chronic pain remained
inconsistent. Here, applying a capsaicin-based ongoing pain model on healthy participants …

Emotional egocentric bias (EEB) occurs when, due to a partial failure in self-other distinction,
empathy for another's emotion is influenced by our own emotional state. Recent studies …

The experience of empathy for pain is underpinned by sensorimotor and affective
dimensions which, although interconnected, are at least in part behaviorally and neurally …

Pain habituation is associated with a decrease of activation in brain areas related to pain
perception. However, little is known about the specificity of these decreases to pain, as …

The shared‐representation model of empathy is still debated. One of the major questions is
whether empathy‐eliciting stimuli depicting others' pain selectively activate the …