Individual Differences in Vicarious Pain Perception Linked to Heightened Socially Elicited Emotional States.

ABSTRACT: For some people (vicarious pain responders), seeing others in pain is experienced as pain felt on their own body and this has been linked to differences in the neurocognitive mechanisms that support empathy. Given that empathy is not a unitary construct, the aim of this study was to establish which empathic traits are more pronounced in vicarious pain responders. The Vicarious Pain Questionnaire (VPQ) was used to divide participants into three groups: (1) non-responders (people who report no pain when seeing someone else experiencing physical pain), (2) sensory-localized responders (report sensory qualities and a localized feeling of pain) and (3) affective-general responders (report a generalized and emotional feeling of pain). Participants completed a series of questionnaires including t

SUBMITTER: Botan V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6288400 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature