Empathy for pain activates brain areas partially overlapping with those underpinning the first-hand
experience of pain. It remains unclear, however, whether such shared activations …

Previous research in social neuroscience has consistently shown that empathy for pain
recruits brain areas that are also activated during the first-hand experience of pain. This has …

Empathy is thought to engage mental simulation, which in turn is known to rely on
hippocampal-neocortical processing. Here, we tested how hippocampal-neocortical pattern similarity …

It is not known how specific the neural mechanisms underpinning empathy for different
domains are. In the present study, we set out to test whether shared neural representations …

Empathy is a multi-faceted construct with important implications for social behavior. Based
on a selective review of the neuroscientific evidence collected in humans, the present paper …

Empathy – currently defined as the sharing of another’s affective state – has been the focus
of much psychological and neuroscientific research in the last decade, much of which has …

In this study, we addressed the highly debated question of whether neural responses
previously linked to affect sharing could result from the perception of salient affective displays. …

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

The endogenous opioid system is strongly involved in the modulation of pain. However, the
potential role of this system in perceiving painful facial expressions from others has not been …

Major depressive disorder (MDD) has been hypothesized to lead to impairments in empathy.
Previous cross-sectional studies did not disentangle effects of MDD itself and …