Recent imaging results suggest that individuals automatically share the emotions of others
when exposed to their emotions. We question the assumption of the automaticity and propose …

The phenomenon of empathy entails the ability to share the affective experiences of others.
In recent years social neuroscience made considerable progress in revealing the …

… were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVAs or paired t-tests, when testing for
differences between Other/Pain vs. Other/No Pain, and one-sample t-tests, when testing whether …

Our ability to have an experience of another's pain is characteristic of empathy. Using functional
imaging, we assessed brain activity while volunteers experienced a painful stimulus and …

… We used a 1.5-T Siemens Sonata MRI scanner to acquire gradient-echo, T* 2 -weighted
echo-planar images with blood-oxygenation-level-dependent contrast. An additional T 1 -…

… T-cell stimulation and possibly actions on regulatory T (T Reg ) cells 125 (in this article T Reg
cells are defined as CD4 + CD25 + T cells … Ipilimumab has been shown to cause T-cell and …

… To investigate brain responses during empathy for pain, Singer and colleagues studied
females who were accompanied by their romantic partners (Singer et al. 2004). In one condition, …

Social neuro-science has recently started to investigate the neuronal mechanisms underlying
our ability to understand the mental and emotional states of others. In this review, imaging …

… Tania Singer Tania Singer … To better account for the variety of human emotional
experience while acknowledging a bodily contribution to feelings, Schachter and Singer [ …

As humans we are a highly social species: in order to coordinate our joint actions and assure
successful communication, we use language skills to explicitly convey information to each …