ArticleQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)2022
Regulating mirroring of emotions: A social-specific mechanism?
Article in Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Integrating Emotional Contagion into Leadership Theorizing: Development and Validation of the Leader Awareness of Holistic Contagion Scale.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Neurobiological mechanisms and treatment of empathic pain in nonsuicidal self-injury.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Remote work arrangement: a blessing in disguise for socially anxious individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Role of fantasy in emotional clarity and emotional regulation in empathy: A preliminary study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
There is evidence that humans mirror others' emotional responses: brain responses to observed and experienced emotion overlap, and reaction time costs of observing others' pain suggest that others' emotional states interfere with our own. Such emotional mirroring requires regulation to prevent personal distress. However, currently it is unclear whether this "empathic interference effect" is uniquely social, arising only from the observation of human actors, or also from the observation of non-biological objects in "painful" states. Moreover, the degree to which this interference relates to individual differences in self-reported levels of empathy is yet to be revealed. We introduce a modified pain observation task, measuring empathic interference effects induced by observation of painful states applied to both biological and non-biological stimuli. An initial validation study (
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