Effect of doctor–patient news-induced moral judgments on pain empathy for doctors and patients in China

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Pain empathy’s preferential nature tends to trigger prejudice and intergroup conflicts. Given the current degree of proliferation of doctor–patient conflict news in China, this study aims to determine whether readers of doctor–patient news-initiated moral judgments prefer pain empathy for doctors or patients.

Materials and methods

This study utilized localized doctor–patient news with high or low moral performance (based on morality ratings of patients’ behaviors) as moral-judgment-eliciting materials, and painful pictures as pain empathy-eliciting materials. The event-related potential (ERP) technique was utilized to assess moral judgment’s effect on the cognitive empathy component and to investigate electroencephalogram signals’ accuracy in classifying four br

SUBMITTER: Li H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9726916 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature