Is your pain my pain? A study exploring the relation between pain sensitivity, pain thresholds and empathy for somatic and psychological pain.
Objectives: Research has shown that empathy for both somatic and psychological pain recruits affective components of the so‐called pain matrix, a set of brain regions that is activated during the perception of somatic pain. In addition, the subjective evaluation of experimentally induced somatic pai...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Clinical Psychology Vol. 62; no. 4; pp. 748 - 762 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2023
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