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Pain Empathy

Pain Empathy is a psychological construct that refers to the affective and cognitive process of perceiving, understanding, and resonating with another individual’s pain experience, distinguished from general empathy by its specific focus on nociceptive or distress-related states in others.

269

Publications

25.9K

Citations

971

Authors

439

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

132

Variants

Empathic Pain

Parents

Publications

269

Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain

Tania Singer, Ben Seymour, John P. O’Doherty et al. · Science · 2004 · 3.9K citations · Full text

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Social Modulation of Pain as Evidence for Empathy in Mice

Dale J. Langford, Sara E. Crager, Zarrar Shehzad et al. · Science · 2006 · 873 citations · Full text

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Do You Feel My Pain? Racial Group Membership Modulates Empathic Neural Responses

Xiaojing Xu, Xi‐Nian Zuo, Shihui Han · Journal of Neuroscience · 2009 · 797 citations

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Compassion in Organizational Life

Jason Kanov, Sally Maitlis, Monica C. Worline et al. · American Behavioral Scientist · 2004 · 649 citations

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation highlights the sensorimotor side of empathy for pain

Alessio Avenanti, Domenica Bueti, Gaspare Galati et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2005 · 614 citations

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Authors

971

  1. CL
    Claus Lamm

    University of Vienna, Austria

    15 publications · 1.7K citations

    14

    h-index

  2. JD
    Jean Decety

    University of Chicago, United States

    12 publications · 2.8K citations

    12

    h-index

  3. SH
    Shihui Han

    Peking University, China

    10 publications · 2.1K citations

    10

    h-index

  4. MR
    Markus Rütgen

    University of Vienna, Austria

    8 publications · 573 citations

    8

    h-index

  5. JM
    Jing Meng

    Chongqing Normal University, China

    8 publications · 306 citations

    8

    h-index

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Institutions

439

  1. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    14 h-index

    25 publications

    6K citations

  2. Sapienza University of Rome

    Rome, Italy

    12 h-index

    20 publications

    3.7K citations

  3. University of Vienna

    Vienna, Austria

    12 h-index

    48 publications

    3.3K citations

  4. Peking University

    Beijing, China

    11 h-index

    36 publications

    6.3K citations

  5. Shenzhen University

    Shenzhen, China

    11 h-index

    36 publications

    1.2K citations

  6. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    19 publications

    24.8K citations

  7. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

    Chengdu, China

    7 h-index

    46 publications

    2.8K citations

  8. Chongqing Normal University

    Chongqing, China

    7 h-index

    27 publications

    710 citations

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Venues

  1. Pain

    11 publications · 1.1K citations

    11

    h-index

  2. Scientific Reports

    11 publications · 522 citations

    11

    h-index

  3. Neuropsychologia

    10 publications · 860 citations

    10

    h-index

  4. NeuroImage

    10 publications · 2.1K citations

    10

    h-index

  5. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

    SCAN · 10 publications · 579 citations

    10

    h-index

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