Out of Sight Out of Mind: Perceived Physical Distance Between the Observer and Someone in Pain Shapes Observer’s Neural Empathic Reactions

Social and affective relations may shape empathy to others’ affective states. Previous studies also revealed that people tend to form very different mental representations of stimuli on the basis of their physical distance. In this regard, embodied cognition and embodied simulation propose that diff...

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Main Authors: Arianna Schiano Lomoriello, Federica Meconi, Irene Rinaldi, Paola Sessa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01824/full