ArticleBehaviour research and therapy2019
Behavioral empathy failures and suicidal behavior.
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- Theory of Mind and Suicidality: A Meta-Analysis.Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide ResearchPooled it
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- Social Determinants and Developmental Factors Influencing Suicide Risk and Self-Injury in Healthcare Contexts.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Social problem-solving, interpersonal stress, exclusion, and empathy in suicide risk.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2024Article
- Leveraging Decision Science to Characterize Depression.Current directions in psychological science · 2023Article
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- Neural responses to social decision-making in suicide attempters with mental disorders.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- COMPOSITE MIXTURE OF LOG-LINEAR MODELS WITH APPLICATION TO PSYCHIATRIC STUDIES.The annals of applied statistics · 2022Article
- Improving Social Connections to Reduce Suicide Risk: A Promising Intervention Target?The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2021Article
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- Evaluation of Anxiety, Suicidal Risk, Daily Stress, Empathy, Perceived Emotional Intelligence, and Coping Strategies in a Sample of Spanish Undergraduates.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Impaired decision-making has recently gained recognition as a component of the suicidal diathesis. Yet, although precipitants and particularly deterrents to suicidal behavior are often interpersonal, little is known about social decision-making in suicidal individuals. This study employed a novel version of the Ultimatum Game to investigate how empathy moderates responses to social conflict in 149 older adults, comprising groups of suicide attempters (n = 49), suicide ideators (n = 32), non-suicidal depressed controls (n = 33), and a non-psychiatric control group (n = 35). Participants acted as responder to a series of single-shot financial offers that varied in fairness. Some offers were paired with social context information on the proposer, designed to evoke either empathy or punishment. Offer acceptance was sensitive to Fairness and Social Context, such that participants accepted more offers in the empathy condition and fewer offers in the punishment condition. A Group * Context interaction was observed, wherein the suicide attempters adjusted their acceptance rates less in the empathy condition than the non-psychiatric controls. Thus, older adults with a history of suicide attempt were less influenced by empathy scenarios, indicating that a failure to integrate others' emotions into decisions may undermine social deterrents to suicide.
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