Pain Processing in a Social Context and the Link with Psychopathic Personality Traits-An Event-Related Potential Study.

ABSTRACT: Empathy describes the ability to understand another person's feelings. Psychopathy is a disorder that is characterized by a lack of empathy. Therefore, empathy and psychopathy are interesting traits to investigate with respect to experiencing and observing pain. The present study aimed to investigate pain empathy and pain sensitivity by measuring event-related potentials (ERPs) extracted from the ongoing EEG in an interactive setup. Each participant fulfilled subsequently the role of "villain" and "victim". In addition, mode of control was modulated resulting in four different conditions; passive villain, active villain, active victim and passive victim. Response-, visual- and pain ERPs were compared between the four conditions. Furthermore, the role of psychopathic traits in these outcome

SUBMITTER: van Heck CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5622147 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature