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Jackson, P. L., Meltzoff, A. N., &Decety, J. (2005). How do we perceive the pain of others? A window into the neural processes involved in empathy.

To what extent do we share feelings with others? Neuroimaging investigations of the neural mechanisms involved in the perception of pain in others may cast light on one basic component of human empathy, the interpersonal sharing of affect. In this fMRI study, participants were shown a series of still photographs of hands and feet in …

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Slavich, G. M., Way, B. M., Eisenberger, N. I., &Taylor, S. E. (2010). Neural sensitivity to social rejection is associated with inflammatory responses to social stress.

Although stress-induced increases in inflammation have been implicated in several major disorders, including cardiovascular disease and depression, the neurocognitive pathways that underlie inflammatory responses to stress remain largely unknown. To examine these processes, we recruited 124 healthy young adult participants to complete a laboratory-based social stressor while markers of inflammatory activity were obtained from oral …

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