Vicarious pain responders and emotion: Evidence for distress rather than mimicry.
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DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12865
Abstract: Up to a third of the population experiences pain when seeing another in pain. The mechanisms underlying such vicarious sensory experiences are thought to reflect hyperactive mirror systems (threshold theory) or dysfunctional processing and representation… read more here.
Keywords: pain responders; respiration; distress rather; vicarious pain ... See more keywords