Pain Processing in a Social Context and the Link with Psychopathic Personality Traits—An Event-Related Potential Study

Pain Processing in a Social Context and the Link with Psychopathic Personality Traits—An Event-Related Potential Study

Empathy describes the ability to understand another person’s feelings. Psychopathy is a disorder that is characterized by a lack of empathy. Therefore, empathy and psychopathy are interesting traits to investigate with respect to experiencing and observing pain. The present study aimed to investigat...

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Main Authors: Casper H. van Heck, Josi M. A. Driessen, Maria Amato, Marnou N. van den Berg, Pritha Bhandari, Laura Bilbao-Broch, Jordi Farres-Casals, Manon Hendriks, Adrian C. Jodzio, Laura Luque-Ballesteros, Christina Schöchl, Laura R. Velasco-Angeles, Roel H. A. Weijer, Clementina M. van Rijn, Marijtje L. A. Jongsma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
electrophysiology
ERP
pain
psychopathy
empathy
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00180/full

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