ArticlePsychological science2022
Placebo Analgesia Reduces Costly Prosocial Helping to Lower Another Person's Pain.
Article in Psychological science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Shared effects of the opioid antagonist naltrexone on first-hand and empathic pain.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Trial
- Placebo Analgesia Does Not Generalize From Pain to Interoceptive Abilities: A Preregistered Exploratory Study.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
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- Avoiding Pain to Others Motivates Effortful Prosocial Behavior.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Neuropsychological mechanisms of observational learning in human placebo effects.Psychopharmacology · 2025Review
- Endogenous opioid receptor system mediates costly altruism in the human brain.Communications biology · 2024Article
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- Empathy from dissimilarity: Multivariate pattern analysis of neural activity during observation of somatosensory experience.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Healthcare experience affects pain-specific responses to others' suffering in the anterior insula.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
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- A pill as a quick solution: association between painkiller intake, empathy, and prosocial behavior.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Neural responses underlying extraordinary altruists' generosity for socially distant others.PNAS nexus · 2023Article
- To respond or not to respond: exploring empathy-related psychological and structural brain differences between placebo analgesia responders and non-responders.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Altruistic responses to the most vulnerable involve sensorimotor processes.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Moving beyond the lab: investigating empathy through the Empirical 5E approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The bright and dark sides of egoism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
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Abstract
Painkiller administration lowers pain empathy, but whether this also reduces prosocial behavior is unknown. In this preregistered study, we investigated whether inducing analgesia through a placebo painkiller reduced effortful helping. When given the opportunity to reduce the pain of another person, individuals experiencing placebo analgesia (
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