ArticleBehavior research methods2024
The Empathy for Pain Stimuli System (EPSS): Development and preliminary validation.
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- Pain sensitivity mediates the relationship between empathy for pain and psychopathic traits.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Advancing affective stimuli databases: challenges and solutions.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
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- Stress-induced cortisol response predicts empathy for pain: The role of task-based connectivity between the insula and sensorimotor cortex during acute stress.Neurobiology of stress · 2024Article
- Group empathy for pain is stronger than individual empathy for pain in the auditory modality.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- The mutual influences between working memory and empathy for pain: the role of social distance.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents - an ERP study.Social neuroscience · 2023Article
- The influence of aggressive exercise on responses to self-perceived and others' pain.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
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We present the Empathy for Pain Stimuli System (EPSS): a large-scale database of stimuli for studying people's empathy for pain. The EPSS comprises five sub-databases. First, the Empathy for Limb Pain Picture Database (EPSS-Limb) provides 68 painful and 68 non-painful limb pictures, exhibiting people's limbs in painful and non-painful situations, respectively. Second, the Empathy for Face Pain Picture Database (EPSS-Face) provides 80 painful and 80 non-painful pictures of people's faces being penetrated by a syringe or touched by a Q-tip. Third, the Empathy for Voice Pain Database (EPSS-Voice) provides 30 painful and 30 non-painful voices exhibiting either short vocal cries of pain or neutral interjections. Fourth, the Empathy for Action Pain Video Database (EPSS-Action_Video) provides 239 painful and 239 non-painful videos of whole-body actions. Finally, the Empathy for Action Pain Picture Database (EPSS-Action_Picture) provides 239 painful and 239 non-painful pictures of whole-body actions. To validate the stimuli in the EPSS, participants evaluated the stimuli using four different scales, rating pain intensity, affective valence, arousal, and dominance. The EPSS is available to download for free at https://osf.io/muyah/?view_only=33ecf6c574cc4e2bbbaee775b299c6c1 .
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