The interaction between pain and attractiveness perception in others.

ABSTRACT: When considering the "beauty-is-good" stereotype, facial attractiveness should facilitate empathy for pain. On the other hand, having in mind the "threat value of pain" hypothesis, pain cues would be more salient, and thus, its processing would not suffer influence by facial attractiveness. The event-related potential (ERP) allows investigating if one of these theories could predict individuals' responses regarding the perception of pain or attractiveness in others' faces. We tracked 35 participants' reactions to pictures depicting more and less attractive faces displayed in a painful and non-painful condition. Each participant completed the following two tasks when presented the images of faces: (1) the Pain Judgment Task, in which participants should rate the pain levels, and (2) the Att

SUBMITTER: Meng J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7099075 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature