Unpleasantness

What determines social behavior? Investigating the role of emotions, self-centered motives, and social norms
In the last decade, a growing research effort in behavioral sciences, especially psychology and neuroscience, has been invested in the …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Leonie Koban, Susanne Leiberg, Patrik Vuilleumier
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Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex
The anterior insula (AI) and mid-anterior cingulate cortex (mACC) have repeatedly been implicated in first-hand and vicarious …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Anita Tusche, Patrik Vuilleumier, Tania Singer
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Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex
Cross-modal and modality-specific expectancy effects between pain and disgust
Pain sensitivity increases when a noxious stimulus is preceded by cues predicting higher intensity. However, it is unclear whether the …
Gil Sharvit, Patrik Vuilleumier, Sylvain Delplanque, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua
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Embodying Pain
How first-hand pain experience shapes social proficiency?