Effects of vicarious pain on self-pain perception: investigating the role of awareness.

The observation of pain in others may enhance or reduce self-pain, yet the boundary conditions and factors that determine the direction of such effects are poorly understood. The current study set out to show that visual stimulus awareness plays a crucial role in determining whether vicarious pain primarily activates behavioural defence systems that enhance pain sensitivity and stimulate withdrawal or appetitive systems that attenuate pain sensitivity and stimulate approach.

Read the full article here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28831270

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