Uncovering the interaction between empathetic pain and cognition
Uncovering the interaction between empathetic pain and cognition
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揭示共情疼痛与认知之间的相互作用
DOI：
10.1007/s00426-014-0634-9
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发表时间：
2015-11-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
He, Shuchang
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作者：
Hu, Kesong;Fan, Zhiwei;He, Shuchang
近期研究表明，对疼痛产生共情涉及疼痛的认知和情感两个方面。共情性疼痛是如何影响认知的呢？为探究这一问题，在本研究中，参与者在观看描绘疼痛的图像或相应的对照图像后，执行经典的色词斯特鲁普任务。我们发现，目睹他人的疼痛经历，会使中性斯特鲁普试验中的反应时间（RTs）普遍出现基本的减缓效应。此外，它对认知的影响表现为减少干扰并增强促进作用。而且，我们的研究结果显示，在观察疼痛（共情组与对照组对比）后，不一致和一致试验中的反应时间基本没有变化。这些数据最适合用一种双效对立模型来解释，即共情性疼痛通过两种不同方式影响认知：总体上减缓表现，而在不一致和一致试验中尤其促进表现。从这个角度而言，本研究也支持这样一种观点，即应从综合的视角来理解共情的所有组成部分。
Recent studies have demonstrated that empathizing with pain involves both cognitive and affective components of pain. How does empathetic pain impact cognition? To investigate this question, in the present study, participants performed a classic color-word Stroop task that followed a pain portraying or a corresponding control image. We found that observing pain experience in another had a basic slowing down effect on Reaction times (RTs) during neutral Stroop trials. Further, it affected cognition in a way that it decreased interference and increased facilitation. Moreover, our findings revealed that RTs during the incongruent and congruent trials were essentially unchanged by pain observing (empathy vs. control). The data are best accounted by a two-opposing effect model that empathetic pain impacts cognition through two different ways: it slows down performance in general, and facilitates performance during incongruent and congruent trials in particular. In this way, the present study also lends support to an idea that all components of empathy should be understood from an integrative approach.