Social anxiety and empathy for pain dependent on perspective taken: An ERP study
Izabela Chałatkiewicz, Natalia Piotrowska, Jakub Schimmelpfennig, Piotr Wiśniowski, Aleksandra Lewandowska, Anna Duszyk-Bogorodzka, Kamila Jankowiak-Siuda · FENS Forum 2024
Aims. The aim of our study was to investigate the relationship between social anxiety (SA) and empathy. Based on EEG ERP technique, we examined how socially anxious individuals process empathy for pain in relation to perspective taken. Methods. The ERP procedure involved images depicting hands in painful and neutral situations, after which participants evaluated the degree of perceived painfulness and unpleasantness of the stimuli. The study was divided into blocks, each preceding with the instruction to take first-person perspective (FPP) or third-person perspectives (TPP). Participants (N=65
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