I feel your pain: Emotional closeness modulates neural responses to empathically experienced rejection
I feel your pain: Emotional closeness modulates neural responses to empathically experienced rejection
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DOI：
10.1080/17470919.2011.557245
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
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2
通讯作者：
Adams, Reginald B., Jr.
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作者：
Beeney, Joseph E.;Franklin, Robert G., Jr.;Adams, Reginald B., Jr.
同理心通常被认为是分享他人情感体验的能力。在科学术语中，这通常被操作为一种间接感受他人精神和情感体验的能力。支持这一说法的是，研究表明，观看他人经历身体疼痛会激活与实际疼痛体验相似的大脑区域。社会排斥的第一手经验也激活了这个网络。目前的工作扩展了这些发现，通过检查“疼痛”网络是否同样与目睹拒绝有关，以及情感亲密是否调节这种反应。我们为每一个假设提供了证据，证明：（a）当看到朋友遭受社会排斥时，疼痛网络被激活，（B）与朋友的人际亲密关系调节了这种反应。此外，我们发现，额下回对代表他人的精神和情绪状态至关重要，它调节了情感亲密度和神经反应之间的关系，以观察朋友的拒绝。
Empathy is generally thought of as the ability to share the emotional experiences of others. In scientific terms, this is usually operationalized as an ability to vicariously feel others' mental and emotional experiences. Supporting this account, research demonstrates that watching others experience physical pain activates similar brain regions to the actual experience of pain itself. First-hand experience of social rejection also activates this network. The current work extends these findings by examining whether the "pain" network is similarly implicated in witnessing rejection, and whether emotional closeness modulates this response. We provide evidence for each of these suppositions, demonstrating: (a) that the pain network is activated when watching a friend suffer social rejection, and (b) that interpersonal closeness with that friend modulates this response. Further, we found that the inferior frontal gyrus, critical for representing others' mental and emotional states, mediates the relationship between emotional closeness and neural responses to watching the rejection of a friend.