Self-Interest Induces Counter- Empathy at the Late Stage of Empathic Responses to Others' Economic Payoffs.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have found that individuals exhibit empathic responses when others are treated unfairly. However, there remains a lack of clarity over the extent to which self-interest regulates these empathic responses, and in identifying which component of empathy is more likely to be affected. To investigate these issues, an experiment was designed based on a money distribution task with two conditions [observation condition (OC) vs. participation condition (PC)], and carried out using scalp-recorded event-related potentials (ERPs). Behavioral data showed that the participants' empathic responses were consistent with their coplayers' emotional expressions in the OC, whereas they were inconsistent with the coplayers' expressions in the PC. The electrophysiological data showed that the n

SUBMITTER: Jie J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398428 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature