From: Chris Taylor (chris.taylor@ebi.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 19 Jan 2006 - 11:08:02 GMT
Nature: Advanced Online Publication
18 January 2006
LETTERS
Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived
fairness of others
Tania Singer et al.
doi: 10.1038/nature04271
In a nutshell, if you see another as an unfair game player, you
have less empathy for them. Not got time to expand on why this
might be within the low-level framework I described previously
but perhaps it might be interesting if they explored whether two
unfair people share greater empathy (i.e. maybe it is
'otherness' that is the issue)? Anyway there is a (acc. to
Singer et al.) a firewall blocking empathic sharing of the pain
of the 'unworthy'.
Cheers, Chris.
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