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Social context and perceived agency affects empathy for pain: An event-related fMRI investigation
2009
NeuroImage
Studying of the impact of social context on the perception of pain in others is important for understanding the role of intentionality in interpersonal sensitivity, empathy, and implicit moral reasoning. Here we used an event-related fMRI with pain and social context (i.e., the number of individuals in the stimuli) as the two factors to investigate how different social contexts and resulting perceived agency modulate the neural response to the perception of pain in others. Twenty-six healthy
doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.04.091
pmid:19439183
fatcat:xaiqtkdnl5bdlilyhh7udx2sai