Is emotional contagion special? An fMRI study on neural systems for affective and cognitive empathy

By Lauri Nummenmaa, Jussi Hirvonen, Riitta Parkkola, Jari K. Hietanen. NeuroImage, 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory
2. Richard P. Bagozzi
3. Julianna Pillemer
4. Frank Belschak
5. Judith Aharon-Peretz
6. Riitta Hari
7. W. Rietdijk
8. Sigal G. Barsade

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory
2. Riitta Hari
3. Richard P. Bagozzi
4. Sigal G. Barsade
5. Ruth Feldman

In Social Psychology

1. Richard P. Bagozzi
2. Julianna Pillemer
3. Constantinos G. V. Coutifaris
4. Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory
5. Sigal G. Barsade
6. Willem J. M. I. Verbeke
7. Russell S. Cropanzano
8. Frank Belschak

Citations in the corpus

• Two systems for empathy: a double dissociation between emotional and cognitive empathy in inferior frontal gyrus versus ventromedial prefrontal lesions. (2009, result): “This conclusion is compatible with a recent report by Nummenmaa et al. (2008) who propose that emotional empathy facilitates motor representation of other peoples' emotions, and results in more vigorous mirroring of the observed bodily and emotional states than cognitive empathy.”
• Bodily maps of emotions (2013, background): “Functional brain imaging has established that the primary somatosensory cortices are engaged during emotional perception and emotional contagion (25, 26), and their damage (27) or inactivation by transcranial magnetic stimulation (28) impairs recognition of others’ emotions.”
• Organizational Neuroscience: Taking Organizational Theory Inside the Neural Black Box (2011, background): “Empathy stems from the MNS and causes us to respond emotionally and behaviorally as if the observed event actually occurred to us (Nummenmaa et al., 2008; Singer et al., 2006).”
• Emotional contagion in organizational life (2018, background): “In addition, mirror neuron systems2 (e.g. Nummenmaa et al., 2008; Shamay-Tsoory, 2011) and the newly suggested neurocognitive model of mimicry (Prochazkova & Kret, 2017) have recently started to receive more scholarly attention as alternative physiological feedback processes.”
• Theory of Mind and Empathic Explanations of Machiavellianism (2013, background): “likewise, some studies explicitly instruct people to empathize with a victim (Nummenmaa et al., 2008) or aim to uncover overlap between ToM and empathy (Völlm et al.”
• Should Machines Express Sympathy and Empathy? Experiments with a Health Advice Chatbot (2018, neutral): “34,35 Cognitive empathy is defined as ‘‘comprehension of another person’s emotions,’’ 33 which is often operationalized as ‘‘predictive accuracy’’ and ‘‘recognition accuracy.’’”