Exposure to violence reduces empathetic responses to other’s pain

Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases

Stephanie D. Preston, Frans Β. Μ. de Waal · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2002 · 4.1K citations

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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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Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

Tania Singer, Ben Seymour, John P. O’Doherty et al. · Nature · 2006 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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The Neural Substrate of Human Empathy: Effects of Perspective-taking and Cognitive Appraisal

Claus Lamm, C. Daniel Batson, Jean Decety · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · 2007 · 1.5K citations

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How do we perceive the pain of others? A window into the neural processes involved in empathy

Philip L. Jackson, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Jean Decety · NeuroImage · 2004 · 1.3K citations

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