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C/PS/184. Proposal. Effects of empathy on pain perception

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2010
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The paper proposes research into the origins of the feeling of pain and the role of empathy in pain perception. A test is designed to study the effect of group identification on the experience of empathy when viewing pain responses in others. Theoretical links between emotions and cognition are established, the methods of the proposed research and its expected outcomes are outlined.

 

KEYWORDS: Proposal, empathy, pain perception, emotion and cognition,

 
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