Establishing a Counter-Empathy Processing Model: Evidence from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

ABSTRACT: Counter-empathy significantly affects people's social lives. Previous evidence indicates that the degree of counter-empathy can be either strong or weak. Strong counter-empathy easily occurs when empathizers are prejudiced against the targets of empathy (e.g., prejudice against outgroup members) and activates brain regions that are opposite to those activated by empathy. Weak counter-empathy may have different neural processing paths from strong one, but its underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. In this work, we used an unfair distribution paradigm, which can reduce participants' prejudice against persons empathized with, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore the neural mechanisms underlying counter-empathy. Here, empathy and counter-empathy shared a common neu

SUBMITTER: Jie J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8881639 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature