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Zhang, Wenyun; Zhuo, Shiwei; Li, Xiaoyun; Peng, Weiwei – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by reduced pain empathy--a process that is grounded in first-hand pain perception. Because autistic traits are continuously distributed in the general population, we hypothesized that first-hand pain sensitivity would mediate the link between autistic traits and pain empathy. After controlling for…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Personality Traits, Empathy, Pain
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Rosa Esteve; Elena R. Serrano-Ibáñez; Sheila Castillo-Real; Carmen Ramírez-Maestre; Alicia E. López-Martínez – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
Empathy in healthcare professionals is associated with better treatment outcomes and higher satisfaction among patients with chronic pain. Activity patterns play an essential role in the adjustment of these patients and, as a pain behaviour, may have a communicative function and elicit distinct empathic responses. This study investigated whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Premedical Students, Pain, Chronic Illness
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Yan, Zhiqiang; Pei, Meng; Su, Yanjie – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Empathy for pain in daily life is more complex than in lab settings and involved higher cognitive abilities. In order to investigate the role of executive function in preschoolers' empathy for pain, we investigated the role of three subcomponents of executive function (inhibitory control, working memory and cognitive flexibility) in children's…
Descriptors: Empathy, Pain, Executive Function, Preschool Children
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Gerrard, Jessica – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
In the midst of the most serious refugee crisis since WWII, nation states are buttressing their borders. This paper explores the border politics of the nation state in response to the refugee crisis. Drawing on the work of Susan Sontag, Judith Butler and Imogen Tyler it considers the ways in which the imagery of the pain and suffering of Others is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Migrants, Global Approach
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Decety, Jean; Meidenbauer, Kimberly L.; Cowell, Jason M. – Developmental Science, 2018
This developmental neuroscience study examined the electrophysiological responses (EEG and ERPs) associated with perspective taking and empathic concern in preschool children, as well as their relation to parental empathy dispositions and children's own prosocial behavior. Consistent with a body of previous studies using stimuli depicting somatic…
Descriptors: Empathy, Preschool Children, Measurement Equipment, Child Development
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De Coster, Lize; Wiersema, Jan R.; Deschrijver, Eliane; Brass, Marcel – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is associated with problems in empathy. Recent research suggests that impaired control over self-other overlap based on motor representations in individuals with autism spectrum disorder might underlie these difficulties. In order to investigate the relationship of self-other…
Descriptors: Pain, Empathy, Autism, Imitation
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Thaler, Hanna; Skewes, Joshua C.; Gebauer, Line; Christensen, Peer; Prkachin, Kenneth M.; Jegindø Elmholdt, Else-Marie – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Difficulties in emotion perception are commonly observed in autism spectrum disorder. However, it is unclear whether these difficulties can be attributed to a general problem of relating to emotional states, or whether they specifically concern the perception of others' expressions. This study addressed this question in the context of pain, a…
Descriptors: Pain, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Emotional Response