Empathy Modulates the Evaluation Processing of Altruistic Outcomes

Empathy plays a central role in social decisions involving psychological conflict, such as whether to help another person at the cost of one’s own interests. Using the event-related potential (ERP) technique, the current study explored the neural mechanisms underlying the empathic effect on the eval...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xin Liu, Xinmu Hu, Kan Shi, Xiaoqin Mai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
P3
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00407/full