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

By Claus Lamm, C. Daniel Batson, Jean Decety. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2007

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

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Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain (2011, neutral): “…(Salimi-Khorshidi et al., 2009), our primary analyses were based on individual activation maps collected from nine different fMRI studies and a total of 168 participants (Bird et al., 2010; Hein et al., 2010; Jackson et al., 2005, 2006; Lamm et al., 2007, 2010; Singer et al., 2004, 2006, 2008).”
Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind (2015, neutral): “Previous research indicates, for example, that explicitly trying to take another person's perspective can modulate the degree of empathic responding (Lamm et al., 2007; Perry et al., 2010) and that inter-individual differences in perspective taking correlate with early emotion detection (Kanske et…”
Neural basis of extraordinary empathy and altruistic motivation (2010, background): “Moreover, interindividual differences in perspective-taking have been shown to correlate with individual differences in MPFC during empathic responding (Lamm et al., 2007b).”
The neural basis of empathy. (2012, background): “The presentation of facial expressions of others in pain (Botvinick et al. 2005, Lamm et al. 2007a, Saarela et al. 2007), or of body parts receiving painful stimulation ( Jackson et al. 2005, Lamm et al. 2007b), has elicited similar findings.”
The Neurodevelopment of Empathy in Humans (2010, background): “This neural network, which includes the supplementary motor area, dorsal ACC, anterior medial cingulate cortex, periaqueductal gray and insula [Akitsuki and Decety, 2009; Lamm et al., 2007], underpins a physiological mechanism that mobilizes the organism to react, with heightened arousal and attenti”
Empathy, Sympathy, and Pity: 21st-Century Definitions and Implications for Practice and Research (2011, background): “Personal distress and the sympathetic urge to relieve another’s anxiety can lead to egotistic motivation (i.e., offering insights or guidance that are really directed at relieving the practitioner’s own unpleasant sensations, rather than empowering the client; Lamm et al., 2007).”
Empathy, Connectedness and Organisation (2012, background): “Lamm et al. (2007) too found that responses to the pain of others can be moderated by cognitive and motivational processes, suggesting that patterns of behaviour can be learnt and modified.”
Do You Feel My Pain? Racial Group Membership Modulates Empathic Neural Responses (2009, result): “…to faces increased activity in parts (e.g., ACC and frontal/insula cortex) of the neural circuits underlying first-person pain experience, consistent with previous observations (Singer et al., 2004; Jackson et al., 2005; Gu and Han, 2007; Lamm et al., 2007; Saarela et al., 2007; Han et al., 2009).”
Theory of Mind and Empathic Explanations of Machiavellianism (2013, background): “…(1) an emotional reaction that might include a sharing of the other’s feelings, (2) a cognitive capacity to take the perspective of the other, and (3) a monitoring mechanism that registers the source of the experienced affect in a way differentiating self from other (lamm et al., 2007: 42).”
Empathy-induced altruistic motivation. (2010, neutral): “self-other differentiation rather than merging (e.g., Jackson, Meltzoff, & Decety, 2005; Lamm, Batson, & Decety, 2007 ).”
Intrapsychic Correlates of Professional Quality of Life: Mindfulness, Empathy, and Emotional Separation (2010, background): “Similarly, Lamm, Batson, and Decety (2007) demonstrated that when observers projected themselves into painful situations, the observers‘ empathic concern was lessened, whereas when the observers imagined another person in the situation, the observers‘ empathy increased.”
Empathy versus personal distress: Recent evidence from social neuroscience. (2009, background): “Also, no correlations with self-report personal distress scores were observed by Lamm et al. (2007) or Jackson et al. (2006).”
Reconstructing and deconstructing the self: cognitive mechanisms in meditation practice. (2015, background): “The second core process that we propose to be central in many constructive meditations is that of perspective taking, the act of considering how oneself or another would feel in a particular situation [64].”