ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2019
Atypical bodily self-awareness in vicarious pain responders.
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- Visual perspective and body ownership modulate vicarious pain and touch: A systematic review.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Pooled it
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- More empathy for others, more hurt for oneself? Empathy for pain is related to poor mental health and negative emotion regulation.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Individual differences in vicarious pain as a shift in the self-other boundary.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Confrontation with others' emotions changes bodily resonance differently in those with low and high levels of depersonalization.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Individual Differences in Bodily Self-Consciousness and Its Neural Basis.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Explicit and implicit sense of agency in depersonalisation experiences.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology.Psychological research · 2022Review
- Vicarious experiences of touch (mirror touch) in a Chinese sample: Cross-cultural and individual differences.PloS one · 2022Article
- Past and Future Explanations for Depersonalization and Derealization Disorder: A Role for Predictive Coding.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Vicarious pain is an outcome of atypical body ownership: Evidence from the rubber hand illusion and enfacement illusion.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2021Article
- Bridging senses: novel insights from synaesthesia.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
Vicarious perception refers to the ability to co-represent the experiences of others. Prior research has shown considerable inter-individual variability in vicarious perception of pain, with some experiencing conscious sensations of pain on their own body when viewing another person in pain (conscious vicarious perception/mirror-pain synaesthesia). Self-Other Theory proposes that this conscious vicarious perception may result from impairments in self-other distinction and maintaining a coherent sense of bodily self. In support of this, individuals who experience conscious vicarious perception are more susceptible to illusions of body ownership and agency. However, little work has assessed whether trait differences in bodily self-awareness are associated with conscious vicarious pain. Here we addressed this gap by examining individual difference factors related to awareness of the body, in conscious vicarious pain responders. Increased self-reported depersonalization and interoceptive sensibility was found for conscious vicarious pain responders compared with non-responders, in addition to more internally oriented thinking (associated with lower alexithymia). There were no significant differences in trait anxiety. Results indicate that maintaining a stable sense of the bodily self may be important for vicarious perception of pain, and that vicarious perception might also be enhanced by attention towards internal bodily states. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Bridging senses: novel insights from synaesthesia'.
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