Talking about social conflict in the MRI scanner: Neural correlates of being empathized with
Talking about social conflict in the MRI scanner: Neural correlates of being empathized with
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10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.056
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2014-01
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5.7
通讯作者：
Maria Seehausen;Philipp Kazzer;M. Bajbouj;H. Heekeren;A. Jacobs;G. Klann-Delius;Winfried Menninghaus;K. Prehn
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作者：
Maria Seehausen;Philipp Kazzer;M. Bajbouj;H. Heekeren;A. Jacobs;G. Klann-Delius;Winfried Menninghaus;K. Prehn
这项研究调查了在功能磁共振成像过程中，当谈到目前经历的现实社会冲突时，被移情的情绪效应和神经相关性。具体地说，我们重点研究了释义形式的认知同理心的影响，这是一种经常用于冲突解决的技术。22名参与者在接受关于他们的社会冲突的采访时接受了功能磁共振成像，并从采访者那里得到了移情或不移情的回答。皮肤电导反应(SCR)和自我报告的被理解的感觉和情绪效价被用来评估情绪反应。结果证实了前人的研究结果，即认知移情对社会冲突中的情绪有正向短期影响，同时增加了SCR所反映的自主神经唤醒。自我报告评分显示的释义和不移情干预的效果因自尊、访谈前的负面情绪和参与者的移情商数而异。移情反应涉及额顶网络，活动于右侧中央前回(PRG)、左额中回(MFG)、左侧顶下回(IPG)和右侧中央后回(POG)。处理非同理心反应涉及一个额颞部网络，在左侧额下回、三角部(IFGTr)和右侧颞极(Tp)出现簇状突起。一种特定的感觉误解模型激活了一个由IFG、左侧TP、左侧Heschl回、IFGTr和右侧楔前叶组成的网络，该网络延伸到几个边缘区域，如岛叶、杏仁核、壳核和前扣带皮质/右中扣带(ACC/MCC)。这些结果支持了一种广泛使用的冲突解决技术的有效性，这对经常处理并不得不缓解高度负面情绪的专业人士来说也是有用的，例如医生或法官。
This study investigated the emotional effects and neural correlates of being empathized with while speaking about a currently experienced real-life social conflict during fMRI. Specifically, we focused on the effects of cognitive empathy in the form of paraphrasing, a technique regularly used in conflict resolution. 22 participants underwent fMRI while being interviewed on their social conflict and receiving empathic or unempathic responses from the interviewer. Skin conductance response (SCR) and self-report ratings of feeling understood and emotional valence were used to assess emotional responses. Results confirm previous findings indicating that cognitive empathy exerts a positive short-term effect on emotions in social conflict, while at the same time increasing autonomic arousal reflected by SCR. Effects of paraphrasing and unempathic interventions as indicated by self-report ratings varied depending on self-esteem, pre-interview negative affect, and participants' empathy quotient. Empathic responses engaged a fronto-parietal network with activity in the right precentral gyrus (PrG), left middle frontal gyrus (MFG), left inferior parietal gyrus (IPG), and right postcentral gyrus (PoG). Processing unempathic responses involved a fronto-temporal network with clusters peaking in the left inferior frontal gyrus, pars triangularis (IFGTr), and right temporal pole (TP). A specific modeling of feeling misunderstood activated a network consisting of the IFG, left TP, left Heschl gyrus, IFGTr, and right precuneus, extending to several limbic regions, such as the insula, amygdala, putamen, and anterior cingulate cortex/right middle cingulum (ACC/MCC). The results support the effectiveness of a widely used conflict resolution technique, which may also be useful for professionals who regularly deal with and have to de-escalate situations highly charged with negative emotion, e.g. physicians or judges.