Watching your brain wince: Empathic pain and psychopathic traits

It hurts to watch someone else get hurt. Most of us feel this "empathic pain", but there are individual differences and things are different for people with high psychopathic traits. Recent research has addressed which brain regions are implicated in processing of empathic pain.

Source: Psychonomic Society News - March 19, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news